Corporate investigators and your attorneys can determine what additional records are lawful to obtain.”

The longer we examined the legitimate statements available to me, the clearer it became that Vance had mixed family spending with corporate relationships in ways he’d never explained.

Some transfers were labeled reimbursements.

Others purported to pay for events at Celeste’s foundation.

The descriptions shifted whenever the totals became difficult to justify.

Ruth asked whether I wanted to report the suspicious transactions to the company’s independent audit channel.

I did, with copies of the documents I personally possessed and a written statement of how I had obtained them.