Part Twenty-Six: Twenty-Two Months

The special committee referred the matter to the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Connecticut in the second week of December.

It is a wire fraud case.

That is the ordinary federal charge for this, because the invoices and the payments moved by wire and email, and because wire fraud is broad and carries real time and does not require proving much that is exotic.

The first thing I learned about federal criminal process is that nothing happens.