Chapter 9 - THE BANK TRAIL
Forensic accountant Lena Brooks reviewed the transfers.
No television montage.
Six weeks.
Bank subpoenas.
Invoices.
Vendor confirmations.
General ledger entries.
The picture became narrower.
Of the $163,750 in questioned reimbursements:
$38,500 went to an overdue subcontractor tied to a Reeves project.
$54,000 went toward a commercial insurance premium.
$61,250 went toward payroll and payroll taxes.
$10,000 remained in Reeves Family Services temporarily, then reimbursed a legitimate home-security expense later.
That last $10,000 was messy, not clearly fraudulent.
Some household and business money had mixed.
Bad accounting.
Maybe intentional.
Maybe not each time.
Then other payments.
$28,000 Dad had given for the nursery had been used exactly as intended.
Night nurse deposit legitimate.
Security upgrade legitimate.
No evidence Preston had been stealing every dollar from the beginning.
That mattered.
The misconduct evolved.
Cash pressure increased.
Dorinda proposed using broader categories.
Preston accepted.
Then rationalized.
Then fabricated.
That progression was more believable than a master plan formed at conception.
The question remained:
What was the $300,000 for?
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The bank records alone could not tell us.
Emails did.
