Chapter 9 - The Final Verdict
Six months later, the trials of Garrett Boyd, Roland Pike, and Arthur Vance came to a swift and definitive close.
Garrett Boyd was sentenced to eighteen years in federal prison for wire fraud, forgery, and manslaughter by gross negligence. Roland Pike received seven years for corporate embezzlement and perjury. Arthur Vance was sentenced to twenty-two years without the possibility of parole, his political empire completely dismantled and his name erased from city records.
On the day of the final sentencing, Marin stood on the steps of the federal courthouse, flanked by Dorian and a team of legal advocates.
Reporters gathered around her, microphones thrust forward.
"Mrs. Caldwell!" a journalist called out. "How does it feel to see the men who destroyed your husband’s life finally behind bars?"
Marin looked into the news cameras, her expression calm, graceful, and triumphant.
"Justice isn't about revenge," she said clearly. "It’s about making sure that powerful men can never treat human lives like disposable costs on a balance sheet again. My husband Daniel can finally rest in peace."
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Dorian stepped forward, taking her hand in his before the cameras. "And Vance Enterprises will spend every day ensuring that promise is kept."
The photos of the mafia kingpin holding hands with the former cleaner on the courthouse steps made the front page of every newspaper in the country—not as a scandal, but as a symbol of a city’s transformation.
