Chapter 5 - Schedule B-41
Northbridge produced original records under subpoena and client authorization.
Schedule B-41 was not secret.
It was an internal batch report.
Forty-one reimbursement requests over twenty months.
Total:
$1,386,220.
Some legitimate.
We traced every line.
Preschool:
$42,000.
Nanny:
$118,000.
Pediatric specialists:
$16,400.
Security costs directly attributable to Sophie after Claire’s death:
$96,000.
Therapy and bereavement support:
$28,700.
Travel for medical/family needs:
Some legitimate.
Then strange entries.
Child Enrichment Residence Program — $87,500.
Sophie had never attended a residential program.
Specialized developmental consultant — $44,000.
No provider I recognized.
Protective transportation reserve — $112,000.
Our actual security company had not received it.
Educational acquisition services — $63,000.
Meaningless.
Receipts existed.
Letterheads.
Invoice numbers.
Payment confirmations.
Then the reimbursement account.
Northbridge had been instructed to send reimbursements not to me personally but to:
Carter Family Services Clearing Account.
Real account.
Used by our family office to settle household expenses.
Elena had legitimate administrative access.
Northbridge saw:
Same family entity.
Same historical destination.
Nothing immediately alarming.
But several months into B-41, routing instructions changed.
New account:
Same bank.
Similar account name:
Carter Family Service Reserve.
Singular Service.
Not Services.
Who owned it?
E.C. Administrative Holdings LLC.
Manager:
Elena Carter.
There.
Northbridge should have verified the change more carefully.
It had received a signed instruction letter bearing my signature.
Forged.
Then the money.
Not all reimbursements went there.
Only selected ones.
Total diverted to Elena-controlled account:
$694,300.
That was the first clean number.
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Then where did it go?
We needed bank records.
