Chapter 7 - UNCOVERING THE MONEY TRAIL
Sheriff Higgins adjusted his gun belt, staring at Ethan with a mix of respect and deep conflict.
"I'll give you forty-eight hours to clear this up with the county judge, Ethan," Higgins conceded, stepping back.
"But Brad’s family has deep roots in this county... he’s pushing the District Attorney to file felony charges," Higgins warned.
After the deputies drove away, Ethan and Marcus sat in the home office, logging into Ethan’s personal bank accounts.
What they discovered on the glowing computer screen made Ethan’s blood turn to ice.
His life savings of three hundred thousand dollars had been completely drained three weeks after his declared death.
Additionally, a four-hundred-thousand-dollar military SGLI life insurance payout had been deposited into a private account.
The sole beneficiary had been changed from Lily to Brad’s shell company, Sterling Holdings LLC.
"They didn't just move on from your death, Ethan... they profited off it," Marcus stated bitterly.
"The signature on the beneficiary change form is dated two days before I was deployed to Syria," Ethan revealed.
"I never signed this document," Ethan added, pointing at the digitized signature on the screen.
"This was a pre-planned conspiracy between Jessica and Brad long before my unit was ambushed."
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"Which means someone inside your military unit gave them your deployment coordinates," Marcus concluded grimly.
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