I walked into the U.S.

Attorney’s office with my lawyer and Corinne’s binders and I told them everything — what had been done to me, what I’d found, whose money had gone where.

I did not minimize my grandfather’s guilt or my family’s thirty years of looking away.

I cooperated fully and completely, and I did it early, before the raids, before the indictments, before anyone could claim I’d only come forward when cornered.

Sennett and Perpetua and Silvia had all built their plans on the same assumption — that I would be the last to understand what was happening and the easiest to sacrifice.

I made myself, instead, the first witness through the door, and a first witness who arrives with a forensic accounting already complete is not a suspect.