“He wrote the second-biggest check. Twelve hundred.” Curtis turned his cup. “He got let go in a restructure that October and he wrote it three weeks before he got let go.

He’s in Charlotte now and he’s fine, and he’s not on the list because he’s blocked everybody from Apex, including me, and I’ve known him eleven years.”

And a woman named Renata Ossorio, sixty-eight, retired now, who put her hands flat on the table and said:

“I’m going to be honest with you and I want you to let me, because I’ve been carrying it.”

“Please.”

“When they said he’d been fired for stealing, and people started saying he’d taken our money — I said, out loud, in a break room, she must have known.”