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Heir Robinson takes her job as an accountant seriously. When she believes her new client is committing fraud and laundering money, she decides to escalate the account to the proper authorities. Because of his connection to her boyfriend, she decides to give Iman a heads up. What Heir doesn’t expect is for their meeting and her findings to end in a shootout.

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