Permission to Save Myself
“There’s nothing to find.”
“That’s not what I asked.”
The call was on Tuesday. There were four people on it. The one who did the talking was a woman named Priscilla Ochoa, director of third-party risk, and I want to record that she was decent to me the entire time and that I understood by minute six that she was not the problem.
“Ms. Miller, I want to start by saying that nothing in this file suggests wrongdoing on your part. I want that clear before I read you what I have.”
“Go ahead.”
“Our screening returned forty-one distinct instruments bearing your name and Social Security number: commercial loan agreements, personal guarantees, corporate credit lines, three UCC filings, and a lien application against a residential property in Palm Shores.