Chapter 7 - The Seizure of the Vance & Sterling Accounts

Before ascending to the boardroom, Julian Hayes executed the financial and civil countermeasures with surgical precision.
Under emergency judicial discovery warrants issued by Chief Judge Eleanor Sterling:
All private banking facilities, offshore trusts, and corporate shares held by Julian Sterling were frozen under federal RICO attachment orders.
The medical licenses of Dr. Eleanor Vance and the conspiratorial clinic staff were permanently revoked, accompanied by immediate extradition warrants.
The $14 million penthouse and country club assets owned by the Vance family were sequestered to satisfy criminal restitution liens.
Victoria Vance sat in the holding room, weeping hysterically in her handcuffs as her designer phone displayed dozens of notifications:
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CARD DECLINED — ASSET REPOSSESSION IN PROGRESS.
The wealth, status, and arrogance they had built on the supposed death of an innocent baby were crumbling into dust within hours.