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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Erasing is too sloppy and obvious. Which female character's name could have been altered to look like "Greg"? Then they add a "?"

Think about it -- makes no sense at all that Greg's name was there. I'm betting Geri was altered. Then again, he asked Roman to fire her.

Or that is the piece of paper where he wrote something about Kerry, so she is the Princess in a position to screw things up. It's what they were all saying on the plane.[/quote]

I agree it can be sloppy/obvious to erase. It can really depend on the mark though. Like the mark that we see on the page, the cross out/underline, is in pencil but it's really hard -- it would be impossible to erase that without people knowing. But if you write more lightly, you can also erase really lightly and it will disappear without leaving any telltale eraser marks.

So just to totally speculate, maybe the underline/cross out was always there, really dark, and they don't touch it. But maybe Logan wrote "Pinky" (his nickname for Shiv) in the margins next to it, and it's more lightly applied. They might be able to remove that mark.

Also, since things were written in pencil, they can always say "oh, it looks like Logan erased it." So even if the erasure seems obvious, as long as they can convince people they didn't tamper with it (and with three of them, they'd all testify that it was untouched, unless something happened to make them turn on each other), they'd be covered. It's already a piece of paper that Logan clearly made alterations to at different times.

Also, remember how Gerri kept emphasizing that the paper wasn't legally binding? Which is true. No witnesses, no signature, it's not clear -- I'm an attorney and in a situation with a will, a paper like that would be deemed irrelevant. The only reason it's being considered in this situation is because it indicates to the board what Logan might have wanted, and they are in a situation of trying to quell fears from shareholders about the stability of the company. So if they can say "Logan planned for this and this is what he wants" it might calm people down. It's not how you would actually execute an estate, especially since Logan no doubt has an actual notarized will in place and on file with his executors and attorneys. The only way this paper would come into play for the actual distribution of assets would be if there was some problem with the will (like someone could prove it was signed under duress or when the decedent was not of sound mind).

So Geri and the others might have felt comfortable-ish messing around with it because the only impact it will have is on this one board decision -- the interim CEO. The permanent decision will come later and will not be dictated by "Logan's wishes" so much. So if their only goal was "keep Shiv out" because they feel she complicates matters or is harder for them to work with or push aside, then I do think they'd risk messing with the document and feel pretty confident that know one would ever find out because it will never be legally executed. It's just info.[/quote]

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