information.
He did not have authority to move corporate assets independently.
So he created the appearance that he did.
Forged signatures.
Altered approvals.
Vendor relationships.
And Chloe.
PART 11
Chloe Ruiz had entered our lives eighteen months earlier.
She was polished.
Intelligent.
Always perfectly prepared.
Daniel introduced her as an outside consultant who specialized in
overseas expansion.
Her firm, CR Strategic Partners, submitted invoices that looked
legitimate.
Market analysis.
Vendor development.
International logistics.
The problem was that much of the work could not be verified.
PART 12
My forensic review found duplicated invoices.
Payments split below internal review thresholds.
Consulting fees routed through two intermediary companies.
And a series of transfers totaling $1.84 million.
Not all of that was necessarily stolen.
That was for investigators and auditors to establish.
But enough was suspicious that I stopped treating Daniel’s behavior as a
marriage problem.
It had become a corporate problem.
PART 13
At 8:15, airport authorities prevented Daniel and Chloe from boarding
