Two hundred forty thousand dollars had gone straight from joint checking into Margaret’s shell company over three years.

To beat his motion, I needed original bank signature cards and certified disclosure logs served directly on Hale’s office on Pearl Street.

What was Richard Hale going to find in the electronic disclosure delivered on Thursday afternoon?

I opened my laptop and started putting together a three-hundred-page forensic exhibit package.

I arranged the wire receipts in date order, attaching the state incorporation certificates and Margaret’s original bank signature cards behind each schedule.

I drafted a formal electronic disclosure notice listing forty-two specific financial exhibits tied directly to Apex Consulting.