Chapter 5 - He Became the Person Who “Handled” Everything
Integration problems multiplied.
Old vendors.
Broken systems.
Deferred repairs.
Permit issues.
Spencer always had:
a solution.
Need emergency electrical work?
He knew a contractor.
Charter marketing?
His friend ran an agency.
Fuel-supply renegotiation?
He had a contact.
At first, efficiency.
Then invoices started flowing through:
affiliates.
Hale Harbor Services.
Pacific Edge Marine.
Blue Lantern Management.
I asked:
“Are these yours?”
“Partly.”
“Why didn’t you disclose that?”
“I did in the vendor appendix.”
Technically:
yes.
Buried.
Still disclosed.
I should have slowed down.
Instead I thought:
Dad will use this as proof he was right about Spencer.
That thought became more important than:
the question.
I approved several contracts after legal and finance review.
Real work was performed.
That mattered.
This was not:
Spencer creates fake companies and steals everything.
The problem was:
pricing,
duplicate scopes,
undisclosed markups,
and authorization boundaries.
Some invoices were inflated.
Some were duplicates adjusted just enough to look separate.
But for months nobody saw:
the pattern.
May you like
Including me.
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