Chapter 6 - The Money Jiso Called “Family Compensation”
The complete trust statements arrived two days later.
The $74,000 was only the beginning.
Over three years, entities connected to Jiso had received approximately $212,000.
Some payments had legitimate descriptions.
Tax coordination.
Property oversight.
Administrative consulting.
Others were vague.
Family management.
Special review.
Private beneficiary services.
Rebecca brought in a forensic accountant named Allison Kerr.
Allison refused to call anything theft before tracing authorizations.
Mason appreciated that.
By the end of the first week, they had a pattern.
Several distributions appeared properly authorized by Claire’s father while he was alive.
Those were legitimate.
After his death, payments continued.
Then increased.
Some contained Claire’s approval.
Some appeared to contain Mason’s.
Mason denied signing several.
One distribution request for $38,000 carried his electronic signature on a date he had been in Boston for a board meeting.
“That doesn’t prove who applied it,” Allison warned.
Mason nodded.
“Then prove what we can.”
Jiso responded through counsel.
Her position was straightforward.
She had provided years of unpaid family financial management.
The trust payments represented compensation Claire and their father understood she deserved.
As for the disputed signatures, Jiso denied falsifying anything.
The nursery footage was harder.
She could not explain that away.
Her attorney stopped trying.
Instead, the defense became emotional.
Jiso had been overwhelmed after Claire’s death.
She believed Monday was alienating Lisa from the family.
She had “lost control.”
Mason read those words twice.
Lost control.
Such a soft phrase for carrying a heated iron toward a baby.
Monday gave a formal statement.
She explained that Jiso had become increasingly hostile whenever Monday questioned strange nursery expenses.
Special-order formula Lisa never used.
Baby equipment that never arrived.
Private developmental consultations no doctor had recommended.
The bills were often paid through accounts tied to Lisa’s trust.
Monday began taking photographs of invoices.
Jiso noticed.
That was why Jiso wanted Monday gone.
The attack in the nursery had not begun as random cruelty.
Jiso needed an incident.
An injured baby.
A panicked father.
A nanny standing nearby.
Someone Mason could blame before asking questions.
The plan almost worked.
Monday had one thing Jiso did not expect.
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The USB.
And now Mason understood why Jiso’s face had gone white before he even watched it.
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