I have never met anyone that kept every single shread of correspondence With someone even prior to suspecting that something is fishy.
Tony was Intelligence in the Navy along with other family members. Steve Bannon was in the Navy. Probably just coincidence or one hell of a sting operation.
Good business people keep all their documentation if they are legit.
I know when I was working on something where I didn’t trust some of the other people, I made copies of everything. Nothing major like this—but a few projects like large system installations or mergers.
They came in handy.