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Private investigation ends in blackmail

Prosperity hired a private eye to look into Equinox Partners. The private eye found something. Now Equinox is down a rocket.

The folder. We have not seen what's in it. We would very much like to.

It started as a routine background check. That is what Prosperity told the investigator, anyway. Six weeks and one very thick folder later, a fully fueled Equinox rocket was quietly towed off its pad.

Nobody will say what was in the folder. Two people at Equinox told us it was "nothing." A third told us it was "basically nothing." A fourth hung up.

We gave them the rocket because we are generous people. That is the only reason.

Equinox Partners board member

Prosperity says it doesn't know anything about a folder, a rocket, or an investigator. Their newest hangar has a rocket in it that is painted a suspiciously fresh shade of gold.

Equinox's whole thing is friendship. Come for the friendships, stay for the money. Right now they are short on both.

  • Prosperity
  • Equinox Partners

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