witness.
With the financial officer, he established, through a series of questions so precise and technical that the officer had to ask for clarification twice, that the authentication process used for Walter’s digital signature had bypassed the [clears throat] district standard two-factor verification protocol.
The officer confirmed this.
He seemed puzzled by the question, as though he had not previously considered why the protocol had been bypassed.
With the forensics contractor, Marcus established that the contractor’s firm had been engaged directly by the district’s financial compliance office, by Gary Ellison’s