Chapter 16 - THE MONEY
Final forensic accounting separated five categories.
Dominic’s personal support of Liam:
Approximately $58,000 over five years.
His money or marital earnings.
Not fraud against me merely because secret.
Subject to divorce accounting where appropriate.
Unauthorized charges from my sole household account:
Approximately $34,600 clearly traceable to fake Leo services, Brooke rent, and Liam school expenses.
Disputed additional:
$11,900 where Dominic claimed mixed household benefit.
Meridian Atlas corporate charges:
$8,740 falsely described.
Cleanest.
Brooke’s direct receipt:
About $29,000 from questionable funds, with $23,000 resolved in restitution/settlement after credits.
Victoria received none.
Good.
No giant fortune.
No hidden offshore account.
A medium-sized, sustained betrayal.
Then Dominic’s rationale in deposition:
“It was a family account.”
No.
The account title was mine.
He had bill-pay authority.
“But we were married.”
Rachel:
“Did that permit you to submit false invoices?”
“No.”
“Did Clara know Liam existed as your son?”
“No.”
“Did she know his tuition was being paid?”
“No.”
“Did she know Brooke’s LLC had no clinicians?”
“No.”
Then:
“Why label Liam’s tuition as Leo educational services?”
Dominic said:
“I panicked.”
For eighteen months?
Hard.
Then company cards.
He had personally certified three false expense reports.
Prosecutor charged one felony fraud/larceny count based on aggregate company funds and a separate count for false pretenses from household account.
Not every marital dollar.
Good.
Then child endangerment count tied to knowingly permitting degrading treatment and terminating legitimate care.
His defense:
He believed mother’s strict approach was misguided but not dangerous.
He did not know extent.
Video contradicted some.
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He still had arguments.
Trial later.
