Chapter 3 - THE $186,000 WAS BAIT, NOT THE MAIN THEFTForensic accounting eventually separated my family money from Whitmore’s corporate losses.
Important.
I refused to let every suspicious transaction become one giant conspiracy.
Our missing reserve:
$186,000.
Confirmed uses:
Approximately $62,000 supported Preston’s affair.
Apartment contributions.
Travel.
Jewelry.
Private meals.
About $48,000 moved through false “consulting” payments to Sloan-controlled entities.
$31,000 went toward a private loan repayment tied to Sloan.
The rest entered accounts later connected to her business network.
Ugly.
But small relative to the corporate issue.
Corporate transfers under investigation:
$8.4 million.
Different scale.
Different victims.
Different legal problem.
Then the accountants found something strange.
The $186,000 transfers occurred shortly before several corporate transfers.
Same rhythm.
Family account payment.
Then corporate payment days later.
Why?
Testing.
Sloan used our household accounts to test vendors and bank routes.
Small payments drew little attention.
Once a route cleared, larger company money followed.
My unborn daughter’s reserve had been a sandbox.
Not the treasure.
That made me angrier than the dollar amount.
Preston asked:
“Did she use me from the beginning?”
I answered:
“You’re asking the wrong person.”
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He looked away.
His affair humiliation was not my job to soothe.
