Chapter 17 - CORALINE’S PLEA
Coraline pleaded to making a false statement during investigation and interfering with preservation of one set of corporate communications? Did she delete emails? We need evidence. Could add she instructed assistant to "clean up drafts" after incident. But not previously set. Let's establish now from forensic audit.
Her assistant recovered deleted calendar note:
WEDDING NIGHT — L consent.
Coraline deleted after hospital.
She said routine cleanup.
Metadata after ambulance.
Too suspicious.
Prosecutor charged obstruction-related offense.
She negotiated.
Admitted:
She knew violence was part of Sterling and Lenora’s history.
She urged Sterling to secure signature anyway.
She lied initially about witnessing strike.
She deleted one note because she feared transaction evidence.
No charge of ordering assault.
Sentence:
Probation.
Community service.
Fine.
Corporate ban from related-party committee for several years.
Board removed her director seat under settlement/bylaws? Shareholder still 12%. She resigned board.
Harbor Vale continued under outside co-investor.
Her influence shrank.
She wrote Lenora:
I believed the company mattered more because the company affected thousands of people. I used that to excuse what happened to one woman.
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Lenora did not respond.
No obligation.
