“And the letter Richard threatened to send to my command board?”

“If he sends a false debt report to your commanding officer, it’ll be treated as official witness tampering during an active military legal inquiry,” Morales said.

“I called your battalion commander twenty minutes ago and put a formal administrative hold on your promotion file.”

“What did the colonel tell you?”

“He told me your record is clean and he won’t entertain unverified civilian complaints,” Morales said.

She tapped her pen once on the yellow pad.