“Bad boy.”
“Does his wife know?”
“Near as I can tell she doesn’t.”
“So what do you have on Eileen McManus?”
“Just about everything is in her name. He uses her to hide his money. I got financials on the offshore accounts he has.”
“Is there any way to link it to him?”
“Yes. There’s one company that filed for bankruptcy that lists Eileen McManus as CEO, and Vinnelli and DeFrancisco as being on the board of directors. It was originally the holding company, for lack of a better term, that hid all their other shit. After DeFrancisco went to jail, Vinnelli got careful and cleaned up a lot. She sold off all the other companies and they changed hands through a series of dummy companies that move the money out of the country, and it all ends up back in her hands.”
“How much money we talkin’ about?”
“I’d say about seven or eight million. Maybe more; give me some time, I’m still looking.”
“All of it in offshore accounts?”
“Pretty much.”
“I guess this would be a good time to have that conversation about some of your skills.”
“Okay, lets.”
“How good are you?”
“I’m very good, Mr. Black. How good depends on what skill you’re talkin’ about.”
“I want that money. Do you have the skills to get it?”
“As much as I’d like to say yes, I can’t. Our old partner Jett Bronson could pull that off in his sleep.”
“What about Travis Burns?”
“Yeah, maybe. I know he did that other thing for you with Diego, but this would be different.”
“Not knowing a lot about computers, tell me why it would be different. And do it so I can understand it, please.”
“See, that time Travis had a number of advantages. Knowing that a transaction was about to take place. He had access to the hardware the original transaction was run on, and he was able to get the password. That made it easy. So all he had to do was to go in behind them and transfer the money out. In this case, the money is, like I said, for the most part all offshore; mostly in the Caymans Islands, so he would have the same access or password. But that’s just me thinking. Travis may be a badder boy than I give him credit for.”
“See what you can do to make that happen.”
“Yes, sir,” Monika said and saluted me with a smile on her face.
I was about to leave when something she said crossed my mind. “One more thing.”
“What’s that?”
“That bankrupted holding company you told me about, Diego Estaban or Martin Marshall wouldn’t be on that list of directors, would they?” I asked, thinking that as his position and power grows that I might need some leverage against Martin.
“No.”
“I want you to look for anything that links Martin Marshall to Vinnelli or DeFrancisco.”
“I’ll do that. But I think I may already have that.”