Bad Trust by Michael A. Kahn

Author:Michael A. Kahn [Kahn, Michael A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Jacki read the court order and looked up with a smile. “Three days, eh?”

I nodded. “Yep. Three days.”

Jacki reached across my desk for a fist bump. “Nice going, girlfriend.”

We bumped.

I’d just filled Jacki in on the events from earlier that afternoon before the Honorable Silvio Maccarone.

I leaned back in my chair. “I’m afraid I’m not going to get a holiday card this year from Yale Rockwell.”

“I think he’s already given you a gift this year.”

“Let’s hope so. We’ll see when we open that gift in three days. We still have some big gaps to fill in.”

“Speaking of which,” Jacki said with a smile.

“Really?” I leaned forward. “You found her?”

“I did.”

“Janice, right?”

“Full name: Janice Ellen Trotter. She left MP Financial about three months ago.”

“And now?”

“A loan officer at US Bank. Works out of one of their West County offices.”

“So you guys talked?”

“We did. She was nervous at first. I promised her the conversation would be off the record. I assured her that it would be a lot easier and lot faster than the alternative, which was getting served with a subpoena and testifying under oath. She agreed. We met for coffee at a nearby Starbucks.”

“Fill me in.”

“Okay.” Jacki opened her notebook and scanned her notes. “So Janice worked at MP Financial for a little over four years. The original company was Mound City Mortgage. That’s who hired her. About a year later, MP Enterprises acquired the company and changed its name. The management remained pretty much the same after the acquisition. Other than the annual holiday party in December and the annual family picnic event in the summer, there was little interaction with the parent company.”

“Did she ever have any direct dealings with Isaiah?”

Jacki shook her head. “He visited their offices once or twice each year, but always for meetings limited to the management team. She would see him in the conference room on those visits but never spoke with him.”

“Does she remember anything about Holly’s application to refinance her home mortgage?”

Jacki raised her eyebrows. “That’s where it gets interesting.”

“Let’s hear it.”

“The application ended up on Janice’s desk. Her supervisor”—she paused to look at her notes—“Brian Fedder, told her that Holly was Isaiah’s sister. Janice told me that made her extra diligent. Although she assumed that the loan approval was pretty much foreordained, she also assumed that her work product might be reviewed by people way higher up. So she made sure she crossed every ‘t’ and dotted every ‘i’ before she prepared her memo approving the loan. She told me she was proud of her work product when she gave the file to her boss.”

“What did the file include?”

“There was her memo and all the usual paperwork attached—credit report, inspection report, and so on. Normally, she said, he would be the one to make the final decision, but he told her he was under orders to send it upstairs. Which was all fine with her. Better than fine, actually, since she was proud of her work and eager to have the higher-ups see it.

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