Chapter 6 - Ava’s Account Was Worth Millions
The account Danielle mentioned was not an ordinary college fund.
Years earlier, Danielle’s father had sold a medical-device company.
He created a trust for Ava.
Current value:
$4.8 million.
Marcus was co-trustee.
Danielle was the other.
Rachel had no legal authority over it.
So how had money moved to her company?
Marcus called his attorney, Rebecca Sloan.
She found the answer.
Eight months earlier, documents were submitted claiming Danielle had
voluntarily relinquished her trustee role while relocating overseas.
Her signature appeared notarized.
Danielle had never signed them.
With Danielle supposedly removed, Marcus became sole acting trustee.
Then someone used Marcus’s credentials to approve withdrawals.
Marcus looked at Rachel.
“You needed Danielle gone on paper.”
Rachel said nothing.
Rebecca continued.
If Danielle challenged the transfers, the fraud would be exposed
immediately.
That explained the blocked calls.
The returned letters.
The intercepted packages.
But Rachel still needed access to Marcus’s electronic signature.
Marcus remembered something.
Eight months earlier, he had been hospitalized for emergency appendix
surgery.
Rachel had his phone.
His laptop.
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His passwords.
And for three days, she had handled everything.
