Chapter 15 - The family office audit
Auditors completed three years of records.
Findings:
Clearly misallocated celebration expenses:
$24,620.
Unsupported personal reimbursements to Marietta:
$11,380.
Duplicate reimbursements:
$4,900.
Ambiguous shared-family expenses:
$9,240.
Legitimate Aubrielle expenses:
Most remaining.
Total potential civil recovery from Marietta:
Around $40,900 before credits.
Not every bad classification became criminal theft.
Some expenses genuinely benefited both girls.
Some documentation was sloppy but not intentionally false.
Prosecutors reviewed.
They charged Marietta with:
Falsifying reimbursement submissions.
Obtaining money by false pretenses for selected transactions.
Not the entire program.
Specific transactions mattered.
The strongest:
A $6,800 jewelry purchase described as:
Aubrielle sixth-year heirloom set
delivered to Claire.
A $4,200 private dance photography package for Claire charged against Aubrielle.
A $3,600 children’s tea event where Aubrielle was not present.
Then email from Marietta:
May you like
Put it under A.B. She never uses her full amount anyway.
That was intent.
