Grace Flores-Hughes

About

Grace Flores-Hughes is the author of her award-winning memoir, A Tale of Survival. Born in Texas and Harvard-trained, she was senior advisor in the corporate sector and served in the administrations of three U.S. presidents and three state governors and helped coin the term Hispanic for the federal government. She is lives in Virginia.

The Opaque Conspiracy: Finding a Way Through Destruction and Despair

In this gripping story of modern-day corruption, the unscrupulous purchasers of a business, aided and abetted by the company’s bank, conspire to cheat a hard-working couple out of their fair share of the company’s value. When an unsuspected short-term setback leaves the company temporarily unable to meet its obligations, the bank seizes on the opportunity to demand the sale of the company’s assets. The bank, which has financed C.E. Levine’s company, misuses its power by colluding with a group of shady business executives who engineer a rigged sale process to gain possession of the entire company not only its assets.

The story is narrated by Bonita Levine who must bring to bear every ounce of the toughness of mind she developed growing up in an indifferent family setting and hardened environment to deal with the dire situation the couple finds themselves in when her husband C.E. Levine, a distinguished, decorated military veteran and general officer is forced by its lender to sell his company’s assets which in turn destroys every aspect of their once happy and prosperous life.

The Opaque Conspiracy uncovers the seamy underside of the modern business world, providing a sobering reminder of the risks that accompany any attempt to work with those who place greed above all else.