Which is to say: uncovering a three-point-one million dollar fraud cost that company about two million dollars, four customers, its auditor, a third of its credit line, and two years.

Arthur has been asked, publicly, at an industry thing, whether it was worth it.

And what he said was: “That’s the wrong question and it’s the one everybody asks.

It wasn’t a choice.

Once I knew, there was no version where I didn’t.

The only thing I got to choose was whether we did it properly, and doing it properly is what cost two million dollars.

“Doing it improperly is free and it ends with both of us in the same courtroom.”