The Room Where It Happened by Jason Letts

Author:Jason Letts [Letts, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mysteries/Thrillers
Published: 2020-12-11T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Monolith Bank’s headquarters was downtown nestled among the skyscrapers. For all the time she’d spent living in Chicago, the high-rise district still had a level of intimidation for her. The people who frequented here lived in another world. At least Monolith bank had branches and ATM’s throughout the city she was familiar with.

When they entered the bank’s main offices, they were immediately directed to a security division that was lightyears beyond what Clearwater Bank had. It made Tera wonder why Chechy was using this bank as the recipient for his fraudulent transactions anyway. Probably just because he’d already had an account with them and had no conception of their security measures.

A woman in a striped dress shirt and pencil skirt met them when they got off the elevator at the fourth floor. The way she looked Brady up and down made it clear to Tera she’d be playing third wheel again. He gave her an effortlessly charming smirk.

“You’re visiting a little sooner than we anticipated, but we should be ready for you,” she said.

“I’ll take whatever you have to give,” Brady said, and the young lady seemed to have trouble focusing for a second.

“I’m Denise Facari, by the way,” she said, reaching for his hand. Tera gritted her teeth. Yes, he’s a man. Try not acting like it’s your first time seeing one.

“Detective Brady Lance, I think we spoke on the phone. And this is Officer Tera Caldera.”

“Pleasure,” Denise said. Tera didn’t have time in the fraction of a second she had Denise’s attention to form any kind of expression.

She showed them into a conference room with a large computer screen and sat down beside the keyboard and mouse at one end of the table.

“We’ve been able to go through the records for the account. There has been a dramatic increase in activity in the past sixty days, but the smaller accounts and lack of any kind of flagging hadn’t raised our suspicions or resulted in any kind of punitive action on our part,” she said.

“What can you tell us about the sources?” Tera asked, determined not to be a fly on the wall this time. After hearing her question, Denise seemed to check with Brady to see if it was one he also wanted an answer to.

“It does seem strange that the transfers are entirely from other regional or local banking entities. Given a random sample of people, many would be with national banks. They appear to be picking their victims well or weeding through a number of people in order to try to exploit a reduced level of security from these smaller financial institutions.”

Brady got up from his seat and went to the wall in order to take a closer look at the large screen.

“Anything you can tell us about the origins of these transactions, any commonalities among the different accounts?”

Denise rapped her fingernails on the table, creating a grating sound that echoed around the room.

“These were all transfers initiated by the senders, suggesting that they have access to all of these different accounts.

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