The news spread across the music industry before most people had finished their morning coffee.
Michael and Silas, two men who had spent years controlling important parts of the international music business, had fallen. Their criminal activities had come under investigation, their convictions had become public knowledge, and the companies they had built or controlled were facing serious consequences. The story had moved beyond entertainment news and into financial publications, where analysts were examining the value of their assets, the future of their business relationships, and what would happen to the record label that had once stood among the most powerful in the world.
