Chapter 9 — The Forensic Ledger

Discovering that you have been set up as the fall guy for a multi-million-dollar federal crime is a clarifying experience.

It removes, all at once, any lingering sentiment, any last impulse to preserve the marriage, any doubt about whether leaving is an overreaction.

It also, if you happen to be a senior forensic auditor, tells you exactly what to do.

I did not confront them.