Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

always under ten thousand dollars at first, to avoid the federal reporting threshold.”

“But they grew,” I said, looking at the later entries.

“Yes,” Raymond said. “Once the housing subcontracts were approved, the amounts doubled, then tripled. We have enough here to show a systematic abuse of public office.”

I studied the columns, my eyes tracing the continue reading …