The seventy-two hours Kade had given himself to complete his tender offer became, instead, the seventy-two hours that ended him.Jason worked without sleep, feeding everything they had to the regulatory task force and, at Tessa's insistence, to a federal prosecutor she'd known since law school, a woman with a reputation for moving fast when the evidence justified it. And the evidence, by that point, more than justified it. Wire transfers spanning nine years. Shell entities registered in six different jurisdictions, all eventually tracing back to accounts controlled, however carefully, by Desmond Kade. A pattern of manufactured misconduct documents that investigators matched, within hours, to metadata scrubbed but not quite scrubbed enough.The tender offer itself became the final piece. Attempting to circumvent a shareholder vote already under regulatory freeze wasn't just aggressive business strategy. It was, according to the prosecutor's office, evidence of intent, proof that who
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