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provide revealing clues in your nancial case. Let’s say you
get 5 years’ worth of bank and credit records for your subject.
During the rst 2 years, the patterns of spending involved
extensive use of checks, withdrawal of cash from ATMs, and
credit card charges. Then this all stops. Suddenly, your sub-
ject isn’t doing any of these things. This is a very strong indi-
cation that some other source of (untraceable cash) income is
now fueling her spending. You may not have direct evidence
of this cash spending, but logic tells us (and the jury) that
something had to have replaced the previous activity.
This type of analysis can also be used in destroying
defenses to the net worth, expenditures, and ba