He’d noted that the paper trail was clear enough to get an immediate federal grand jury indictment.

He had already drafted the formal cover memo to the Office of the Inspector General.

The draft was stamped with the current calendar year and signed with David’s full rank and serial number.

I turned to the binder’s second tab, labeled Intercepted Correspondence and Internal Records.

Inside were sixteen pages of printed emails and signed letters kept in clear plastic sleeves.

The top letter was printed on cream paper under the blue crest of Vance Wholesale Hardware Distributors, my father’s business letterhead.