“Good work on that. Tell me what else.”
Mac continued.
“We did a deep dive on Larry Springer, and honestly, there was nothing on him. We did find that he had one major client before he worked for Devon Slater.”
She was curious.
“Who?”
He shared.
“His father. It looks like Devon inherited the man after the death of his father.”
She understood that.
Rich people liked traditions. She knew that Chris used the same attorneys that his mother used. That familiarity made it easier to do business.
“He likely knew him, and felt comfortable with him. Clearly, he should have gotten a new one, because Devon is in this mess because of the council and his lawyer not getting anything done.”
That would have been her cue to cut her losses.
“Lastly, we were given the task to keep digging on that shell company, Sundown Real Estate. Finally, we seem to have reached the last layer to the original owner. It’s a pharmaceutical company that bought into some real estate, and then, it went under. It no longer exists, so that was likely why they were selling off assets to get capital. They sold off all of the buildings to get money to pay investors.”
She was curious.
“Do they tie to this case in any way shape or form?” she asked, just to make sure.
They both shook their heads.
“Not that we saw. That appears to be the dead end. The only thing we could find that they were ruled by a board of trustees.”
Elizabeth knew it wasn’t easy to find a shell company’s controlling board without MATE, so she gave them props for that,BUTthat didn’t mean she wasn’t going to double-check.
She’d learned that mistakes happen, and when they did, they bit you in the ass.
A LOT.
It was time to bring out the big guns, and by that, she meant the artificial intelligence.
“MATE,” she said, activating her AI assistant.
When she appeared, both Mac and Tora took a step back because it caught them off guard.
Yeah, that was normal.
Only, before she could go there, the one cop did.
“What is that?” Mac asked.
Because she was the ‘that’ he was referring to, MATE focused on the two detectives.
“Oh, you’re pretty,” she said.
Mac looked confused.
“Pardon?”
MATE stopped him.
