Chapter 12 - The Fall of Dominic Vance and the Reckoning in the Rain
Two weeks after the summit at the Grand Continental, justice in New Harbor took a very different, very public turn.
Under Arthur’s direct orders, the Romano legal team turned over three encrypted hard drives directly to the United States Attorney’s Office. The drives contained twenty years of Dominic Vance’s illicit operations—his offshore laundering networks, his illegal arms shipments, and his payoffs to corrupt city inspectors.
At the federal courthouse on 4th Avenue, federal marshals escorted Carmichael in heavy chains into the grand jury room.
Carmichael’s face was pale, his hands trembling as news cameras flashed from every angle. When the prosecutors asked who had ordered the burning of the diner, Carmichael pointed a trembling, terrified finger directly at the surveillance footage of Dominic Vance’s lieutenants.
Every corrupt inspector who had taken protection money from small business owners on the south side was stripped of their badge.
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The corrupt dock authority was completely dissolved and reorganized under a new, transparent board overseen by independent labor unions funded directly by the Romano philanthropic trust.
In a single fortnight, Arthur had done what three decades of mayors had failed to do: he cleaned the rot out of the city’s foundation, turning his family’s underground power into a legitimate, unassailable economic fortress.
