Rescued Runaway
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Author’s Note
I ended the book with Cassie proposing to Frank. I had originally planned to wrap up the case against Tony, J. David et al in an epilogue featuring a radiantly expecting Cassie but I couldn’t decide on a time line that would tie up all the loose ends. So I left it unresolved because sometimes life is messy.
I’ve been involved in the discovery of several major frauds in my audit career and they can take over twelve years to have everything settled through the courts.
Yes, more than twelve years. Time enough for Cassie to graduate university with her MBA and start a family.
In the worst case there was collusion between suppliers and the unit responsible for issuing contracts with kickbacks and major political implications. The forensic audit team we hired had to examine all 30,000 plus contracts that the unit handled over a ten year period to discover who was profiting from the scheme. That examination took almost five years to complete. The police were involved starting in year two with the smallest fish. The Crown Prosecutor started with the most straightforward cases first in hopes that the small fish would help land the big fish in exchange for reduced charges or sentences. Those prosecutions started to happen in year six. The final criminal prosecutions happened in years nine and ten.
After the criminal proceedings were complete and some people did jail time, the civil suits to recover the money began. Some people paid back what they’d stolen right away but others dragged the process out using the money they’d gotten illegally to hire some of the best lawyers in Canada to represent them. As I write this, two of those civil suits are still waiting for their day in court but their lawyers will try to drag out the proceedings as long as possible in hopes of negotiating a settlement that will allow them to keep some of the money they stole.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 says that sometimes the righteous get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked get what the righteous deserve, but this is illusory, for the ultimate reality is that the world belongs to God and he will judge. As a faithful Christian, my response to apparent injustice should be to pray for the wicked that they, in the words of the Book of Common Prayer, ‘turn from their wickedness and live.’ And I need to remind myself that my own righteousness is also illusory and insufficient and that I need to lean on Jesus name each and every day.
Version Notes
2014-09-09First edition.
2014-09-19Corrected a number of typos, both spelling and grammar.
2015-04-25Found more typos, courtesy a couple of readers.