Email to Vanessa

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To: [vanessa]
From: [doug]
Subject: Followup

I assume you've seen the news about our little murderess by now.

Anyways, I've been running the account numbers on those payment stubs Jean-Paul found in Alito's apartment. They're an auto-payment account set up by a charity called Life After Loss. They've been around for a while, basically they specialize in providing aid to victims of mutant attack. Like I said, they've been around for a while (at least since the tsunami Magneto triggered with Julio), but they really kind of burst onto the scene and got a lot of press after Day Zero.

Interestingly, for a charity that provides aid to victims of mutant attack, they don't discriminate - other mutants who are the victims of attack are just as eligible as baseline homo sapiens.

Now, here's where things get murky and conjectural. One of the major services Life After Loss helps provide is low-income housing, as was the case with Alito. The building Alito lived in is owned by an LLC affiliated closely with Life After Loss. One of the LLC's partners, albeit buried under a couple levels of cutouts, is Matthew Risman - the leader of the Purifiers. The FOH and COH also make hefty donations to Life After Loss, though they obviously don't like that the charity ministers to mutant and human alike.

It may be genuine charity, but there are an awful lot of strings to some very questionable people.

Hope that's useful.

-D