Victoria: You think a piece of paper gives you the right to ruin my life? My father's lawyers will tear you apart in court tomorrow morning!
Elena: Your father's lawyers have already withdrawn their representation. They haven't been paid in three months because his primary trust fund was frozen by the IRS yesterday afternoon.
Marcus: Wait... Elena, is it true about the life insurance policy and the original partnership agreement from 2014?
Elena: Every word of it, Marcus. My father built Vance Enterprises from the ground up when it was still called Sterling Logistics. Your future father-in-law was just the chief financial officer who knew how to manipulate paper trails.
Victoria: Marcus, stop talking to her like she's a human being! Call our private legal counsel immediately!
Marcus: Victoria, shut up for one second! Don't you realize what this means? If the original partnership contract was never legally dissolved, then every dividend payment paid out over the last decade was illegal!
Elena: Precisely. Which means every piece of jewelry you're wearing tonight, the custom gold dress, the sports car parked in the basement garage, and the deed to this penthouse were bought with stolen money.
Victoria gasped, reflexively pulling her hands to her neck, clutching her heavy diamond necklace as if someone were about to snatch it away from her.
Victoria: You can't take my personal belongings! These were gifts from my father!
Elena: Gifts purchased with embezzled corporate capital are subject to immediate federal seizure under asset forfeiture laws. The US Marshals are already downstairs in the lobby waiting to process the inventory list.
Guest 1: Is this real? Did Richard Vance really steal the entire company from the Sterling family?
Guest 2: Look at Marcus... he knows it's real. He's not even standing next to her anymore!
Victoria: Marcus, please say something! You promised we were getting married in June! We have a prenup signed, we have the wedding venue booked in Hawaii!
Marcus: Victoria... that prenup was contingent on your family holding controlling interest in the estate. If the estate is gone, the agreement is void.
Victoria: You coward! You're abandoning me because of some maid's accusations?
Elena: She's right about one thing, Marcus. You are a coward. You knew three years ago that Richard Vance was stripping assets from the employee pension fund, and you signed off on the audit reports anyway.
Marcus went completely pale, his champagne glass finally slipping from his fingers and shattering against the marble floor with a loud crunch.
Marcus: I... I was just following orders from the board of directors! I had no direct knowledge of any fraud!
Elena: The federal prosecutor in the district office has thirty-four signed emails with your digital signature attached, Marcus. You weren't following orders... you were taking a ten percent cut of every wire transfer sent to the Cayman Islands trust.
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