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⁠Financial Forensics Labs — Forensic Finance Intelligence⁠

A hedge fund posts a 439% return through June. Six weeks later it sells its entire public book in a single overnight trade. Nothing was hidden — the positions were public, the leverage was disclosed in investor letters. That's exactly what makes this file worth running: three numbers everyone called "the size of the fund" — investor capital, gross leveraged exposure, and what was left after a forced six-day unwind — were never the same number, and almost no one was tracking the gap between them.

This is the GP/LP breakdown of Situational Awareness LP: how full disclosure and real leverage risk can coexist without contradiction, the structural blind spot it shares with Archegos (2021) without the concealment, and the three-part due diligence framework for anyone extending prime brokerage credit or LP capital to a fast-growing, single-thesis fund.

Live case file — figures as reported through July 31, 2026. Still developing; treat this as a snapshot, not a final account. No fraud or concealment has been alleged against anyone in this story.

Financial Forensics Labs: The Due Diligence Files.