Then, Julian received an unexpected call from the District Attorney’s office.
It turned out Mark had been running a scheme for months, collecting tens of thousands of dollars from families across New Jersey and Connecticut by promising them fake subcontracts through my engineering firm. He had forged my signature, falsified company seals, and issued fake corporate sponsorship letters. My text message about freezing the bank accounts had made him panic, thinking I had uncovered his financial fraud—which was why he had desperately launched the public smear campaign to silence me.