Chapter 9 - THE VENDOR NETWORK
Forensic accountants traced the reserve invoices.
Northbridge Genealogical Services was owned by:
Peter Lang.
Peter’s wife:
Dana Reynolds Lang.
Marcus’s sister.
Kestrel Document Review was owned by a former Marcus partner.
Emergency Fiduciary Consulting shared office space with Reynolds Advisory.
Related-party relationships had not been disclosed clearly.
That did not make every invoice fake.
Northbridge performed genealogy work.
Kestrel reviewed documents.
Consultants attended meetings.
But pricing was inflated.
Independent fair-value review estimated legitimate services at:
approximately $148,000.
The rest:
more than $300,000
was unsupported, excessive, duplicative, or routed through conflicts.
Maya stared at the report.
“So he didn’t just steal four-fifty.”
The forensic accountant corrected her.
“He caused the reserve to spend four-fifty. We can currently prove roughly three hundred thousand was improper or unsupported.”
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Important difference.
The story had to survive court.
