Chapter 17 - Northline attacks back
Nathan’s attorney and Northline’s original corporate counsel pushed a different narrative.
Daniel had:
Approved problematic payments.
Altered classifications.
Copied confidential records.
Taken data home.
Contacted outside lawyers without authorization.
Then, after realizing auditors might discover his conduct, he invented a story about Nathan.
The break-in?
An overzealous contractor misunderstanding instructions.
Daniel used it to make himself look like a whistleblower.
That theory was not absurd enough to dismiss without evidence.
Daniel’s early approvals mattered.
His reclassification mattered.
His delay mattered.
His lawyers had to prove sequence.
When did he first suspect fraud?
When did he copy data?
When did he contact counsel?
When did Nathan learn?
Emails showed Daniel first challenged vendor relationships six weeks before he copied anything.
He contacted Caroline after discovering common ownership data.
He disclosed his own approvals to her voluntarily before the break-in.
That helped.
If he were inventing a cover story, he had strangely included his own mistakes.
Still, Northline fired him.
Cause language disputed.
Daniel sued? Not immediately.
Caroline advised patience.
A board investigation continued.
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James Keller, the CEO, finally stopped protecting Nathan after the independent audit.
That ended the corporate counterattack faster than public arguing ever could.
