Chapter 13 - The Foundation Collapses
While my appeal moved forward, federal investigators raided the Phoenix Children’s Recovery Fund.
They seized servers, bank records, and donor files.
The theft was larger than I suspected.
More than six million dollars had been redirected over five years.
Dylan financed properties, luxury travel, and political donations.
My parents used foundation funds to pay attorneys connected to the old crash cover-up.
Red Canyon Strategies was only one of nine shell companies.
The charity had denied legitimate assistance while money disappeared.
One family sold their home to pay for a child’s rehabilitation after our foundation rejected them.
At the same time, Dylan used charitable funds to renovate Nora’s condo.
My mother continued describing the scandal as an attack on our family legacy.
She did not mention the children.
My father resigned from the board but denied wrongdoing.
Dylan disappeared before agents could arrest him.
His phone was found beside an airport parking garage.
His passport remained active.
Nora believed he kept a second identity.
She remembered Mercer County Bank issuing payments to a man named Daniel Rowe.
Investigators traced Daniel Rowe to an Arizona birth certificate belonging to an infant who died decades earlier.
Dylan had used the identity for years.
The shell companies were linked to it.
He had cash, credit cards, and rental properties under the false name.
My brother had prepared to leave long before Nora fell.
Framing me was not only revenge.
It removed the one compliance officer capable of tracing his escape money.
He destroyed my reputation, protected the fraud, and punished me for Caleb in one act.
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The plan was colder than I imagined.
And my parents helped him because saving Dylan had become the organizing purpose of their lives.
