HART STRATEGIC PARTNERS
PRIVATE ACCESS. PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY.
My photograph appeared inside.
Not the magazine portrait. A cropped image from a White House cybersecurity summit, with the presidential seal blurred behind me. Under it, Dad had printed:
EVELYN HART — FEDERAL STRATEGIC LIAISON
I had never held that title.
The packet promised clients “priority insight” into a coming national infrastructure fund. Blake’s company had already collected twelve million dollars in commitments.
“They built a fundraising pitch around you,” Marcus said.
“They built a fraud around proximity.”
By noon, three investors had emailed me directly. One attached a recording from a dinner six months earlier.
Dad’s voice filled my office.