Sketches. Receipts for renovation materials. Invoices from the firm that completed the work, which happens to be a Family-run company that’s often used to launder money. Clever. Not only can we list the disbursements as business expenses on the casino side, since we’re paying out with clean money, but that cash gets pumped into the reno company to cover the inflated costs, and the firm ends up laundering its own funds.
I’m not sure what’s driving Massimo’s insistence on keeping the overall reno expenditure under two hundred grand, but he must have his reasons.
The final figures on the last page seem fine—just shy of the budget by less than a grand. Good. I slip the folder back into the safe and shut the door, then move my friend, Mr. Monet, back into his original place. This isn’t the be
