Maya called at eleven that night.
Elara was still at her desk with the archive photographs spread across two screens, organizing them in date order, cross-referencing against the payment structure Maya had mapped. She had been through the images four times already but kept stopping at the same one, a transaction record, not particularly remarkable in isolation, except for the date printed in the top right corner.
Two years before the scandal broke.
"Talk me through it," Maya said. "What are you seeing?"
"Money moving from a Vale Industries subsidiary into an account that traces back to Vaughn Financial," Elara said. "The date on the transaction is two years before the DA opened the investigation. Two years before any regulator had publicly flagged anything. Two years before anyone outs
