Chapter 3 - DOMINIC HAD NOT STOLEN THE MONEY ALONEThe shell companies unraveled quickly.
Callahan Facilities LLC was no longer Patrick’s original corporation.
That entity had been dissolved.
Someone registered a new company in Delaware with a nearly identical name:
Callahan Facility Solutions LLC
Then invoices entering Bellanova’s system shortened the vendor name internally.
Callahan Facilities.
Easy to miss.
Payments went to an account controlled by a man named Trent Vale.
Not related to Rocco.
Trent was Bellanova Club’s procurement director.
Dominic’s longtime friend.
The money then moved again.
Some toward luxury-event vendors.
Some toward personal debt.
Some toward a company partly owned by Dominic.
There it was.
Dominic had benefited.
But investigators had to determine what he actually knew.
The emails answered.
Dominic to Trent:
Use the old maintenance vendor name. Nobody remembers those people.
Trent:
Callahan?
Dominic:
Exactly. Dead company, dead owner. Clean enough.
Maeve read the message through her attorney weeks later.
She did not cry immediately.
She just stared.
Dead owner.
Her father reduced to camouflage.
Then she stood.
May you like
Walked outside.
And cried where nobody could watch.
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