“The bank audit is tomorrow morning,” I said.

“Friday the fourteenth,” Marcus said.

“The regional directors are coming to his branch in person to review the quarterly commercial holdings.”

He closed the thick ledger and tapped the cardboard cover with his pen.

“If we give this evidence to the auditors, he goes to federal prison,” Marcus said.

“But the bank will immediately seize everything connected to Oakmont to recover the stolen money.”

Marcus looked straight at me, waiting for me to understand the brutal cost of what we were about to do.