"The suggestion," Amy says, "is that the corps listed in the Purchasing and Payables datafiles are not actually the corps who sold us the twenty-seven items. Those corps merely channeled the money to the corps listed in the hidden files on the Metascience network. That in itself brings up the question of liability, if the items don’t perform to spec, but I went a step further. I checked on the corps named in Purchasing and Payables records as well as those in the hidden file on the Metascience network. I discovered that all these are related, and all of them, both sets of corps, are no longer in business."