Chapter 153 The Weight Of It

• The week moved through the courtroom like weather.
• Each day arriving with its own particular weight and leaving something behind that accumulated in the air of the room the way weather accumulated before a storm.
• Tuesday afternoon brought a forensic accountant from the FBI's financial crimes unit. A small precise man who spent three hours walking the jury through the offshore structure documentation Margaret had preserved. He used simple language and clear diagrams and by the end of his testimony the financial complexity that Harold's team had been hoping to use as cover had been stripped away completely.