It wasn’t a legitimate investment asset, and it wasn’t evidence of how David handled money.

It was a fake bribe record Julian and Arthur had built to blackmail David into destroying his audit report before he left for his overseas assignment.

Behind the bank receipt was a handwritten letter from David to my father, dated two weeks after the escrow deposit went in.

David had written three short lines across the middle of the page.

He told Arthur he had already logged the fraudulent deposit into the federal evidence locker and traced the wire back to Julian’s firm.