“The original document with the wet ink signature, and the notary logbook for October 2021.

You have fourteen days.”

Sterling wrote the date on his legal pad.

He pressed down hard enough with his pen to rip the page.

“Your Honor,” Sterling said, “my client never laid eyes on this certificate.”

“Your client’s signature is on the corporate annual report as vice president,” the judge said.

“He signed plenty of documents.

He ought to have read them.”