On Mother’s Day, my mother lifted her glass with a smile. “To the mistake I could never fix.”

Daniel was required to repay substantial personal expenses that had been improperly documented and later faced civil claims brought by the company.

Dad had to sell one of his investment properties to meet obligations connected to the transfers he had approved.

Mark’s consulting business collapsed after Carter Home Systems sought repayment and other clients started questioning his dealings.

Three months later, Chloe left him.

Mom sold the vacation property she loved to help pay the mounting legal expenses.

None of them went to prison because much of their conduct occupied the complicated territory between reckless self-dealing, civil misconduct, and transactions that attorneys could legally unwind.

But they lost something that mattered almost as much to them.

Access.