However, few outsiders knew of this connection.
This was because Don Joyce's mother, Audrey Osborne, was the illegitimate daughter of Sean Quinn's father, Jason Quinn.
Sean Quinn was born to Jason Quinn and his wife in their fifties. Since Mrs. Quinn controlled half of The Quinn Group's shares, Jason Quinn had never publicly acknowledged his illegitimate daughter, fearing his wife would rake up the past.
Though Audrey Osborne could be quite imperious in public, she was secretly terrified of the old matriarch and had never demanded to be officially recognized by the family. Her only hope was that if she behaved herself now, she could get a piece of the pie from the old man later. The Quinn Family was immense and powerful, with assets in the tens of billions—far beyond what a small company like Veridian could ever compare to.
In fact, it was Jason Quinn who had funded the establishment of Veridian in the first place.
