Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

of his coffee. “Hochman wants the plea entered before the winter recess. He knows the public interest will fade once the holidays begin.”

“He is right,” I said. “People have short memories for bookkeeping errors.”

“This was not an error, Lydia,” Raymond said. “Eight hundred thousand dollars is not something you lose in a rounding calculation.”

“No,” I continue reading …