I’d believed him partly because my work centered on children rather than business agreements, and partly because I’d grown used to accepting his reassurances whenever my questions made him uncomfortable.
Jonathan explained that financial investigators had recently begun examining transactions involving the family business, particularly payments to consulting companies with questionable histories and loans backed by unusually complicated guarantees. PlanFamily Trips
Then he showed me a document bearing my name.
According to the agreement, I’d personally guaranteed a substantial business obligation for one of the Whitcombs’ subsidiaries.
The signature at the bottom closely resembled mine, enough to deceive anyone unfamiliar with my handwriting.
I examined it for several seconds before noticing the incorrect final curve and a capital D formed differently from how I wrote it.
“I didn’t sign this,” I told him.
“That’s what your father suspected,” Jonathan replied. “And there may be records that help us establish exactly what happened.”
