The Children of the Company
Chapter 15 - The Children of the Company
The employee board discovered that Victor’s fraud extended into the Albright Youth Foundation.
Children were listed as receiving scholarships that never existed.
The missing money funded private estates.
Evelyn helped create an audit team led by former scholarship applicants.
One student, seventeen-year-old Mateo Ruiz, found his name attached to a university grant worth eighty thousand dollars.
He had received only a used laptop.
The discovery opened hundreds of claims.
The board restored funding and published every award.
Mateo later asked Evelyn whether exposing the fraud made her feel powerful.
“No,” she said. “It made me understand how many people had to be ignored for one family to feel powerful.”
The new foundation prohibited family naming rights.
No hospital wing or scholarship carried the Albright or Hart name.
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Clara supported the rule.
Samuel’s original vision mattered more than preserving any founder’s portrait.
