Falsified Investigation
Overview
From the Story Arc "Dirty Work" given by Shauna Braun.
This Souvenir is restricted to the level range of 25-29.
This is the souvenir awarded after choosing to kill Andrew Rider. For the souvenir awarded after sparing Rider, see Business Card for Rider Development.
Souvenir's Text
Falsified Investigation
You kept this copy of a falsified fire investigation to remind yourself that sometimes justice must look outside the law.
Dirty Work
It started when a young woman named Shauna Braun contacted you. She had reason to believe her father had been murdered, but the police told her there wasn't enough evidence to continue investigating. She asked you retrieve some financial records from the offices of Rider Development, a real estate development firm. As you arrived at the offices, you found the Family on the premises. You fought your way past them, finally finding the files showing payments made from Rider Development to numerous Family front companies.
Shauna shared her suspicion that Andrew Rider, the owner of Rider Development, was the man who murdered her father. You followed up on another transaction from the files, a suspiciously large donation made to Paragon City Councilman Matthew Stone. You broke into his office and found some old memos detailing his opposition to a redevelopment plan pitched by Rider to tear down Blackwood Tower, the apartment complex Shauna's father lived in. Stone ultimately voted for the measure, shortly before receiving the donation from Rider, though it ultimately didn't matter. Blackwood Tower burned down and the fire inspector's report blamed a grease fire, apparently started in Mr. Braun's apartment. Shauna's father, and numerous others, died in the fire.
You went to confront Stone about the apparent bribery at a PR event at a local warehouse, only to find the Family had arrived to threaten Stone. You saved him and he claimed Rider had intimidating him into voting for his redevelopment plan, only paying him off afterward to keep his silence. However, he told you where you could find all the evidence the investigator gathered about the Blackwood Tower fire so you could find the truth.
You broke into the investigator's office and found reams of evidence that the fire was actually arson. None of that evidence was ever made public. It was clear that Rider had the building burned down and used a corrupt investigator to cover up the truth.
You took the evidence to the police, but they were only willing to bring Rider in on bribery charges, claiming the evidence that he'd committed arson was too flimsy.
Shauna was not satisfied with that and neither were you. You went after Rider, fighting past the Family goons he had hired to protect him. He tried to bargain for his life, offering to admit to the bribery charges and serve his sentence. You knew that if he got out, his pursuit of money would keep stomping on the little guy. You put an end to his greed... permanently. There's blood on your hands, but far less than what Rider was responsible for.