bank accounts?
No.
Did I know David owned interests in outside procurement businesses?
No.
Were the wire transfer amounts familiar?
No.
Then Nathan stopped at one document.
“What does your husband do again?” Marriagecounseling services
“Chief operating officer of Vance Meridian.”
David had established Vance Meridian, a regional logistics and medical-supply distributor, with two college friends.
It employed nearly four hundred people across Illinois and Wisconsin.
I owned none of it.
David had always emphasized that.
He founded the company before we married.
Nathan positioned two documents side by side.
A domestic transfer.
An offshore deposit.
Identical amount.
Identical date.
“What is it?”
“I don’t know yet.”
He examined them.
“But I know what it resembles.”
“What?”
“Vendor diversion.”
I stared.
He explained that an executive authorized to pay a legitimate supplier $300,000 might redirect funds through a company he controlled, inflate invoices, divide payments, or establish a shell
