"Wait, Mr. Morrison isn't awake yet. Should we feed him some goldenseal soup to nourish him?" Dunstan was suddenly reminded of Kieran, who was resting in Willow Creek Clinic's back room.
He heard that Kieran was once Yolanda's teacher, so he was often very attentive to anything Kieran-related.
"That would work. But since he's not in great health now, he shouldn't have anything too strong. The 500-year-old aged goldenseal isn't suitable for him."
After thinking about it, Yolanda picked out an ordinary Echinacea root that was a few decades old instead from the boxes.
"You can put this in a soup."
"Okay, I'll do it in a bit," said Dunstan. He seemed to have thought of something and added, "I have something to report to you, Ms. Henderson."
Dunstan fished out an accounts log book.
"Miguel is an asshole. Not only did he pass off subpar herbs as premium herbs, but he sold ordinary herbs for three times the price to the patients.
"He also wrote a lot of faux medicinal formulas pretending to be secret formulas from royal courts and sold them to other pharmaceutical factories and companies. He had profited nearly one hundred million dollars from these.
"Take a look at this. He would do market research to find the most popular selling health supplements, replicate their formula, do some tweaking, and sell them off as secret royal court formulas. Many people got tricked by it.
"Also, to make his formulas more alluring, he increased the dosages of some medicinal ingredients and added a lot of potent ones. If health supplements were made from these formulas, it would be really effective for the consumers at first, but it would be awful for their health in the long run.
"There would also be some people who could not take such potent supplements and would result in food poisoning symptoms."
The more Dunstan spoke about it, the angrier he got. "We shouldn't have allowed that old bastard to go so easily! We should've gotten Mr. Kaufman to arrest him and give him a good interrogation.
"He had earned so much money through fraud! It would be more than enough for criminal charges, I reckon."
Yolanda took the accounts log book and looked through it carefully.
She peeked at a very familiar name when she flipped toward the end—Strong Bones and Muscles Granules. Wasn't this the health supplement that had caused Maria to have food poisoning?
Yolanda was suddenly reminded of when she overheard Diana's phone conversation with Eleanor. They were talking about investing in some kind of health supplements.
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