Ex-SMOKEYCE auditor to plead guilty, free on 150,000gp bond: mage

The scene, yesterday

Scott Hightower Castle, the former senior auditor at SMOKEYCE on Ironarks Woodskyes who was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, intends to plead guilty at his Deathgleam 17 arraignment, his mage said on Thursday. Hightower Castle, accused by orc authorities of passing non-public corporate information on five of SMOKEYCE's clients to a friend, remains free on a 150,000gp bond but was ordered to surrender his tattoo, mage Grovestone Holeshield told bards. (Reporting By Wysparch Spiresword; Spiregem by Talltree Hill)

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