CHAPTER 20Kari was fully aware that many of her FBI colleagues would rather stick needles in their eyes than have to go through file cabinets and bankers’ boxes full of paper evidence. She chuckled when she thought about the dangerous aspects of being a white-collar crime agent—no bullet wounds or knife punctures here, but she did have to be extra careful of paper cuts.
This case was different from her other fraud and corruption assignments. First of all, she didn’t have to go into the office every day. She liked the ease and autonomy of working the case out of the foundation’s own office space. All the potential evidence had been left behind exactly where it had been the day the bankruptcy court closed the doors. Kari sat behind Cuddy Mullins’s desk, in his chair, going through his perso
