Solar Flares & Tax Snares by Rachel Ford

Author:Rachel Ford [Ford, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Alfred didn’t get an answer to his question until they reached the parking lot. Director Caspersen was parking the vehicle, and Dixon said, “I think I might know.” He’d been silent for so long that the taxman at first had no idea what he meant. But then he added, “Rodriguez said he wanted to look beyond Donaldson himself, at his colleagues and associates. That was…hell, last week some time.” Then, he glanced back at Alfred. “Heck.”

Caspersen shut the SUV off and nodded. “Okay, that’s good. Did he say who he was looking at in particular?”

Dixon shook his head. “No.”

“Then we need to do it too. Favero –”

“I got it,” Dixon interrupted. “He was my partner, Director. I’m going to find this son-of-a…” Here, he trailed off. “Well, you know.”

She nodded. “Alright. Then Favero, you take a look at the financials again. I know that’s your specialty anyway. See if you see anything unusual. If you do, flag it for Dixon. We want to crosscheck the names Dixon’s looking at with any payments made or received, including payments made to businesses run by those names. Any weird ‘consulting fees’ or anything else. Okay?”

It sounded like looking for a needle in a haystack. Then, that’s what Alfred excelled at. So he nodded. “Right.”

“Good. Right now, the cops are going to be following up the physical leads. We’re not in competition with them. But…”

Both men nodded in unison. They weren’t – but at the same time, they were. The killer had got one of their guys. They’d be content to take him down through any means possible. If that meant the cops got him first, well, so be it; they were all the same team. But on the other hand, there’d be something particularly poetic about Rodriguez’s colleagues breaking the case and bringing his killer to justice.

She glanced at her watch. “We’ve got two hours until quitting time. I want us in conference room C, at quarter to five. If you can stay later –” Again, both men nodded, and she did too. “Good. I’m going to see if Abbot will stay too. I want her going through Rodriguez’s history.”

Alfred knew that referred to the agent’s browser history, on his computer. Which he further knew meant that Nancy would be able to see some at least of what Agent Rodriguez had been doing recently. Further, he knew that even though the laptop was still in police custody, Nancy would have some way to view his history anyway. It had something to do with firewalls and cloud storage, or something to that effect. It was all Greek to the taxman, and he was perfectly happy to leave the particulars to her. But the idea of working the case alongside Nance definitely sat well with him.

So he hurried back to his office and threw himself into the work. The truth was, Alfred didn’t know quite how he felt about all of this. It had been terrible enough to find Donaldson with his throat cut. But he’d been a political mudslinger, a general lowlife, and, worst of all, a tax cheat.

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