Three hundred and eleven thousand dollars passed through accounts in her name.

That is the fact that made her, for about a year, the villain of my private version of this.

And it is true, and I am going to explain it, and the explanation is not exculpatory but it is not what I assumed either.

In the second year, Julian told Chloe that he wanted to hire her to do freelance consulting work for the company, off the agency’s books, because the agency had a non-compete he did not want to fight.

He set up an entity for her.