Chapter 10 - Marcus Vance’s Panic And The Five-Hundred-Million Short
By Thursday morning, the financial markets caught wind of the impending federal crackdown.
Trading on Vance Defense Dynamics stock (NYSE: VDD) plunged by forty-two percent in thirty minutes following an emergency trading halt issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Marcus Vance was trapped in his glass-walled penthouse office in Arlington, watching thirty billion dollars of market capitalization evaporate in real time.
His international bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands were frozen by federal court injunctions, and his primary defense contracts were officially suspended by the Pentagon.
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In a state of frantic, unhinged madness, Marcus attempted to transfer five hundred million dollars from the company’s employee pension fund into an unregistered offshore crypto-wallet to fund a private escape flight to Dubai.
The transaction was intercepted and blocked by Group Nine’s cyber-intelligence unit in twelve seconds.
