Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

was a copy of the original housing subcontract, signed in thick black ink at the bottom of the second page.

“That is Thomas’s signature,” I said, recognizing the developer’s sweeping cursive from the campaign donation filings.

“Look at the third line under the payment schedule,” Raymond said, his finger tapping the paper. “The eighty thousand dollars continue reading …