The flatbed scanner runs a high-intensity beam down the page, picking out anomalies:
Edmond Safra cooperated with the FBI regarding the laundering through Republic of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia.
Safra was one who played his cards close to his vest; the unique transactions of Republic were known only to him, and their trail died with him.
It was considerate of him to schedule his suspicious death after his wife changed his will to her benefit. . . .
. . . and the very day her change of citizenship was finalized. . . .
He was, you know, only in Monaco to meet with John Bond of HSBC to finalize the sale of Republic which netted Lily three billion.
Lily had sent the security team to the palatial estate La Leopolda, making help quite impossible--
And how can we explain the cowardice of the Monaco police?
The first alarm went in at 4:54 a.m., yet the brave gendarmes only found the bodies at 7:45 a.m.--three hours in the heart of Monte Carlo--
And for the premier citizen.
It has been said by those close to the scene, "So much incompetence does not come cheaply."
Just as so much judicial impropriety must have come at a dear price.
Why did security chief Samuel Cohen not have keys? Because Lily had taken them we are told by a writer on the subject.
Why did police put Cohen in handcuffs when he could have saved Edmond and Vivian?
Why was the burglar alarm disconnected July 1, 1999?
Why did Lily's paid agent Sonia pencil in Ted Maher and Vivian Torrente at the last minute?
Ted drafted a letter of resignation and was returning to his family and his Columbian-Presbyterian job--why would he pull a stunt?
Ted tested negatif for drugs so why would Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet continue in his slander?
Why did Monaco police need to extort a false confession?
Why did Monaco authorities isolate Ted from communication about the night in question for three years?
Why did Monaco guards awaken Ted every 20 to 40 minutes every night of the ten-day trial, creating a pitiful wreck of a human?
Why did Monaco police "lose" their emergency call tape for the night of the deaths?
Why did they destroy Ted's original clothing and substitute brand-new, uncut, unstained, prohibited athletic wear?
Why did Monaco authorities snatch Ted's wife and her brother off the sidewalk and ransack their room, steal their U.S. Passports?
Why the threats on Ted's wife and children?
How came the sudden conflagration an hour after Ted was taken to the hospital?
Why did Lily pay off Vivian's husband if not simply to avoid the insurance investigation?
Why did Monaco suppress the testimony of world-class forensic DNA expert Dr. Michael J. Baden?
Why would Ted need to do a wacky stunt to get the respect from Safra he already had?
Sonia was a known problem supervisor with a dizzying turnover rate--why was she retained and bought off by Lily?
If Lily had Edmond cremated, why pretend to have a funeral with a coffin?
If Vivian died of strangulation, spattered with Edmond's blood, how came Edmond to be a red fount?
The trial was quick, but answered none of these questions.