I Let Him Finish Laughing First

cups on a table. But the farther I dug, the uglier it got. Loans secured against assets that had already been pledged somewhere else. Vendor payments to companies owned by cousins. Employee retention funds diverted into a trust whose listed beneficiary had been dead since 2019.

And then I’d seen Preston’s name.

Not as an owner.

As an authorized signer.continue reading …