Chapter 13 - WHAT HAPPENED TO GRANT
The financial investigation eventually identified more than $900,000 in questionable vendor payments across four projects.
Not all stolen.
Enough fraudulent.
Midstate Timber Solutions was controlled through an associate of Grant’s.
Funds moved through consulting entities and returned partly as cash and debt payments.
Grant’s personal finances were worse than anyone knew.
Investment losses.
A second mortgage.
Private debts.
He had used Caldwell Residential as a pressure valve.
Then built scapegoats.
Elias was one.
Rebecca another.
Grant eventually faced criminal charges involving fraud, falsified business records, and witness intimidation related to his messages to Josephine.
Elias cared most about the last part.
Not because it carried the biggest penalty.
Because someone finally named what Grant had done to his daughter.
He had used fear against a child to protect an adult scheme.
Grant eventually negotiated a plea after extensive financial evidence and cooperation from others.
Elias did not attend sentencing.
Josephine asked if he wanted to.
“No.”
“Why?”
“I’ve spent enough days letting that man decide where I need to be.”
Instead they went hiking.
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Josephine complained the whole time.
Best day Elias had experienced in months.
