I did nothing dramatic. I exercised rights I already held.Monday I called a special meeting as majority member and removed Julian as managing partner, which required my signature and nobody else’s. Tuesday the employee trust voted with me, one hundred four people who had spent two years watching him take three-hour lunches. Wednesday the bank was notified of the change in signatory authority, and every transfer since February was flagged. Thursday the forensic auditors arrived, which was the part I found almost funny, since auditing was the career I gave up to fund him. Friday his card declined at a restaurant. That is how he found out.

Four hundred and eighteen thousand had moved in five months. Colette’s share was dressed up as a consulting agreement for work nobody could describe. She returned it in nine days without being asked twice, then sent me the unedited video from her own phone. I have never used it. I never needed to.