Her face changed.
She admitted that years earlier, Rourke family businesses had faced a serious cash-flow problem.
Lenore wanted Harrison to permit temporary transfers from charitable funds into family-controlled companies.
Harrison refused.
After he passed away, some of those transfers happened anyway.
“I kept telling myself the money would be returned,” Lenore said.
“Was it?” I asked.
She looked down.
“Some of it.”
“How much was moved?”
Her answer came quietly.
“Millions.”
Then I asked about the $2.4 million.
Lenore surprised everyone.
“I was putting it back.”
She had eventually realized Harrison had been right.
The transfer into his protected reserve was her attempt to restore some of the money.
It did not erase what she had done.
But it changed the story.
Then came an even bigger surprise.
According to Lenore, Camden had not understood where all the original money came from.
He knew the foundation invested alongside family entities.
