I Let Him Finish Laughing First

review, they called it. A cluster of transfers moving through shell companies with forgettable names. Alder Holdings. Finch Advisory. Marsten Domestic. The kind of names built to sound expensive and boring.

My supervisor, Carl Benton, dropped the folder onto my desk on a Tuesday at 8:15 a.m.

“Probably insurance padding,” he said. “Or tax games. Take continue reading …