Chapter 10 — I Went to Work

After that we moved the way I move at work — carefully, methodically, leaving nothing that could be challenged later.

This was the part my family could never have anticipated, because it was the part that required patience, and patience was the one virtue none of them had ever bothered to develop.

I hired an independent digital forensic examiner to authenticate the video and the flash drives, so that no defense attorney could ever claim they’d been altered.

I notified the banks, in writing, that the accounts were subject to a fraud investigation, which quietly froze the disputed transfers in place.

Steadman filed the paperwork to formalize my authority as trustee.