Chapter 10 - The Corporate Audit
By Monday morning, the fallout inside Harrow Hospitality was nothing short of a corporate earthquake. Armed with the forensic accounting files I had quietly compiled over the preceding six months, federal investigators from the state financial crimes division arrived at the corporate headquarters with a search warrant.
The unauthorized offshore accounts Evelyn had established to siphon corporate funds were frozen within three hours. Every forged signature on the trust amendment documents was cataloged, verified, and matched directly to her personal handwriting samples.
I sat in the executive conference room on the fortieth floor alongside Adrian and the firm’s chief legal counsel, reviewing the audit reports as they streamed in from the forensic servers.
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“She diverted over four million dollars from the capital reserves,” Adrian said quietly, staring down at the financial graphs on his tablet screen, his face drawn and exhausted. “If you hadn't caught these irregularities when you did, Claire, the company would have faced involuntary bankruptcy by the end of the fiscal quarter.”
“Evelyn operated on the assumption that no one would ever dare question an elite matriarch,” I replied softly, handing him a fresh cup of coffee. “Arrogance is always a criminal’s biggest blind spot.”
