“Why would he send money to Brenda if she lives in an apartment six miles away?” I asked.

“Because three years ago Brenda threatened to report his corporate fraud to the district attorney if he stopped paying her rent,” Vance said.

He pushed a second page across the desk, a copy of a signed restitution agreement from an accounting firm in Green Bay.

“He embezzled one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars from his last employer,” Vance said.

“He pays them four thousand dollars a month to stay out of state prison.”

“So that was the four-thousand-dollar cash withdrawal on Tuesday,” I said.