She invoiced three hundred and eleven.

So the question that a civil court and an assistant United States attorney both had to answer about her is: at what point does a person who is being paid six times what her work is worth, by a man she is sleeping with, through an entity he created for her, stop being a contractor and start being something else?

Her answer, under oath, was that she believed Julian had decided to be generous, that she was uncomfortable about it, that she raised it once and was told not to be silly, and that she never asked where inside the company the money was coming from because it did not occur to her that it mattered.

Part Twenty-Two: What Happened to Her