The Rose He Showed Off Is Putting Down Roots in a Garden of Her Own novel Chapter 245

Tobias arrived a little late, explaining that he had just wrapped up a second-instance trial for a case.

Zane vaguely remembered him mentioning it. "The fundraising fraud case from a couple of years ago?"

Zane knew the story. The girlfriend of Landon North—the owner of The Southern Harmony Hotel—had been set up and implicated in the scandal. Landon had liquidated all his assets just to bail her out and cover the deficit. They now had a two-year-old son together.

"Yeah, the second trial was today."

"What was the sentence?"

Tobias lowered his voice. "He got the maximum. He's not getting out. Leo Theron thought he was smart and could pull some strings."

"But he crossed the wrong people. He offended the North family, and Director North was personally overseeing this. So, he got slammed with the absolute maximum."

"The hardest part of this case was that it involved corrupt officials in the stock rollout. The pushback was immense. If we didn't have heavy hitters backing us up, this never would have stuck."

Though Zane wasn't in politics, he understood the deadly web of bureaucratic favors. The fact that this fell onto Tobias's desk proved the higher-ups were serious. A regular economic crimes chief couldn't have handled it.

"Wasn't there a mastermind behind it all? What did he get?" Zane asked.

"He walked away clean."

Zane was genuinely shocked. "Walked away from something this massive?"

Tobias nodded. "He scrubbed his tracks perfectly. I never met him face-to-face, but reading the interrogation files, you can tell he's a genius. And he knows the law inside out."

"The guy is a savant. He leveraged Leo's capital at an insane speed and built a massive, legitimate-looking empire in just a few years, dragging a slew of officials down with him. They had the city in the palm of their hands."

"Every business he touched was completely legitimate and wildly profitable. If the housing market policies hadn't tightened, they likely would have successfully transitioned into a clean enterprise."

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