Vance Global had a payment authorization policy.

Anything over fifty thousand dollars required two signatures — the CFO function, which was Corinne, and an officer.

Every single invoice from those four vendors was under fifty thousand dollars.

Not just under.

The largest one was forty-seven thousand eight hundred.

The average was eighty-one thousand five hundred split across two invoices in the same month.

Under the policy, an invoice under fifty thousand required one signature — hers — and a purchase requisition from a budget owner.

The budget owner on every one of them was the chief executive.