Candidate: A Love Story by Ewens Tracy

Author:Ewens, Tracy [Ewens, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-06-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

The report was in her email when she got out of the shower on Sunday night. Kate put on her pajama bottoms and a tank top. She made some of the Chamomile tea the spa had sent home, opened her laptop, and sat on the floor by her large living room window to catch up on what the real world had been doing while she was playing make-believe. Even after a shower, she could still smell the hotel, feel the oils from the spa on her skin. The first sip of tea burned her lips, so she set it on the window ledge and pulled up her work email. Kate scanned the screen. Basic stuff, meeting minutes from the week before, a couple of new meeting requests, the latest poll numbers showing the senator now only two points behind his opponent, and then her eyes landed on the subject line: Complete Background (Malendar, G) CONFIDENTIAL. Kate clicked on the email, opened the attachment, and sipped her tea again. Her stomach growled, and after a weekend in la-la land, Toaster Strudel seemed downright boring. Maybe she would order take-out.

The report filled the screen. Background, demographics, organizations, things Kate already knew. Some affiliations from college she didn’t know about, tax information and contacts. Criminal background check, nothing. Incidents or altercations, nothing. Possible scandals, fraternity connection during college and possible exposure (i.e., photographs, experimental drugs). Each heading listed resources and additional information links. Kate knew most of it; there was nothing that would help the campaign, and thankfully nothing that would hurt it either. It seemed that on paper Grady Malendar was pretty clean. Most of his mess came from his own doing, surface really, but always shy of real trouble. Kate skimmed the rest of the report, past tax reports, and then she stopped dead, teacup en route to her mouth, when she saw the Businesses/Corporations section. She put her cup down and clicked on the link titled “Roads Foundation.”

“I found large sums of money each year on Mr. Malendar’s tax returns from 2002 to present that appeared on the surface to go nowhere. Looking for possible tax fraud exposure, I did some digging and found the sums are sent to a trust, which is linked in a very clever but entirely legal way, to The Roads Foundation. The Roads Foundation was founded in 2002 and is headed by three prominent LA businessmen, Jason Black, Bryce Saunders, and Eric Dampier. All three went to Stanford with Mr. Malendar and they appear to have remained close friends. Mr. Malendar is not listed on any of the foundation paperwork, board of directors, etc., but it is clear he funds the foundation’s annual budget. I see no exposure issues,” the report said.

The Roads Foundation, The Roads Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Los Angeles, hell, California. They were everywhere. There was not a community center, hospital, inner city arts program that didn’t mention the generosity of The Roads Foundation. They spent tens of millions of dollars every year on Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.

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