PART 5
Priya met me in the cafeteria at eleven with a laptop, two backup drives she’d kept at her sister’s “out of habit,” and the exact expression I used to see on analysts right before they told a commander something he didn’t want to hear.
“Three things,” she said. “Tell me if I’m seeing what I think I’m seeing.”
First: $340,000 over fourteen months, routed to Meridian Advisory Group for “strategic consulting.” Meridian’s address was a condo in Short Pump. Owner: Derek Doyle.
Colin’s brother. Who sells cars for a living and has never consulted on anything in his life.
Second: a warehouse renovation budgeted at $610,000, completed — per the county’s own permit filings — for $390,000. The remaining $220,000 paid out anyway, to a contractor with exactly one client on record.
Whitaker Foodservice Supply.
“Third thing,” Priya said, “is the one that made me call instead of email.”
