A long column of financial filings filled the screen in thick blue text.

“Let’s look at his corporate debt structure from six years back,” Arthur said.

He clicked on a scanned PDF from September of that year.

The page showed a huge commercial loan summary between two private companies.

Sterling Capital was in debt to Vanguard Global Partners for fourteen million dollars.

The full debt came due on December first of that same year, secured by Patrick’s personal real estate.

I glanced back at the printed paper file lying on the desk.