Chapter 9: Griffin's Limp and the God Who Caused It

The original filing record was not in the founding charter's index.

That was the first thing I confirmed, at seven-forty the next morning, standing at my workstation before anyone else on the floor had arrived, with my phone recording and my orange marker uncapped and the translated document Luke had shown me open on one side of my screen and the firm's public charter filing — obtained through a Delaware corporate registry search that took nineteen minutes because their interface looked like it was designed in 2003 and possibly was — open on the other.

The translated document had a designated representative provision on page 211. The Delaware filing had no page 211. The Delaware filing had sixty-three pages, which meant either the Columbia classicist had been working from a different document entirely, or the founding charter had two versions, or the sixty-three-page Delaware filing was the translation and the 217-page document was the original, which would mean the firm had incorporated itself in Delaware using an edited version of its own founding agreement.