It is always more than you think, when it is built like that.

My father used to say that too.

After that, the machinery turned the way it is supposed to turn when it is working.

Vance Global terminated both Flynn and Selina for cause.

The Justice Department, in time, charged them both with wire fraud and conspiracy, and both, faced with the record — the traced transfers, the forged approval, the server logs, and Flynn’s own voice in my kitchen — accepted plea agreements that required full restitution.

Flynn also lost every dollar of his stock options, forfeited under a misconduct clause in the executive contracts that he himself had insisted on adding years earlier, to hold underperforming subordinates to account.