Every invoice had to be tied to a wire.

Every wire had to be tied to an account.

Every account had to be tied to a person.

Bank records take months to produce.

The federal review does its own forensic accounting and does not simply adopt the company’s.

And then there is the thing nobody tells victims, which Theodora Brandt told me in a conference room in the following September, in about six sentences, and which I think about constantly.

She said: “Mrs.