Chapter 11 - When the Union Lawyer Sold Out His Boss
On Thursday morning, the corrupt union defense attorney, Arthur Vance, sat in a federal interrogation room in Chicago across from Colonel Raymond Vance.
Faced with twenty-five years in federal prison for Evidence Tampering, Subornation of Perjury, and Aiding a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise, Arthur Vance completely abandoned his client.
He spent five hours signing a comprehensive proffer agreement, handing over:
The Secret Slush Fund: Bank routing numbers for an offshore Panamanian account containing $3.2 million in cartel protection money.
The Blacklist File: A list of eight local citizens whom Barnes had framed for drug crimes over the past five years to seize their private farm properties.
The Text Message Logs: Direct digital communications between Barnes and the Sinaloa cartel logistics coordinators.
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In exchange for a reduced sentence at a minimum-security facility, Arthur Vance agreed to testify as the state’s primary cooperating witness against Barnes.
The fortress of union protection that Barnes had bragged about had turned into the very gallows that would hang him.
