And because proceedings were coming, the recipient was now required by law to preserve every record in the categories listed below.
Deleting so much as an email after this page touched his hand would be destruction of evidence, a fresh crime with his name already on it.
The categories followed, one per line. Communications with any employee of the Bureau's compliance division. Payments to third-party consultancies. And, in a line that made the back of his neck go damp, any materials concerning the routing or expedition of administrative orders.
There were no names in it, and there did not need to be. Demands like this were usually shotguns sprayed at everyone within range of a dispute, and this one was a scalpel drawn along the exact shape of what he had done.
They didn't know who yet, only how, and his wastebaskets were off limits while they closed the distance.
The morning got worse at the speed of dialing.
