Some had gone to legitimate improvements and payroll, according to available records.

Others moved through Morningstar and then into a second company associated with Gary Kline.

“We need source documents,” she cautioned.

“Money moving between connected businesses isn’t automatically misconduct.

But misrepresentation about the loan and the use of your signature matters.”

I thought of the kitchen where I’d stood holding a spatula and my sleeping son while Kyle told me to leave.

It was hard to look at the property as the same house.