Dark Law · DL-005
She Filed The Warning In August 1999. They Voted Anyway. She Watched $99 Billion Disappear.
The memo is stamped August 14th, 1999, with two words in the margin: "overstated concern." Five months later, on January 10th, 2000, the board voted on the $350 billion AOL Time Warner merger, leading to an unprecedented $99 billion write-down.
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