And I have five years of a wrongful sentence that I would very much like to spend making sure she serves a right one.”

Over the next two weeks, with Arthur Vance’s full and furious backing, Flynn’s private study became a war room.

We brought in an independent forensic accounting team, and I led the audit myself — pulling from my own memory the vendor names, the project codes, the shell entities I had traced five years before and never been allowed to expose.

“Start with Northern Strategic Consulting,” I told the team at two o’clock one morning, without needing to look it up.

“That was the primary shell she ran everything through the first time.

She’s arrogant.