Felix looked at the document for eleven minutes before he said anything.
Dayo sat in the US office, watching Felix's face cycle through expressions he rarely saw there — surprise, then concentration, then the flat, empty look that meant Felix's brain had entered a gear most people didn't have. The screen in front of him showed a financial transfer record. Payment from a shell company called Whitewater Holdings Ltd to a server hosting company in Montreal. Dated three weeks before Warren Castellano published the first leak.
"Well?" Dayo asked.
"It's real." Felix didn't look up. "The routing codes match known Michael infrastructure. The shell company dissolved in 2019, which is classic cleanup behavior. The payment amount — forty-seven thousand — is exactly the right size for a journalist drop system. Big enough to buy quality, small enough not to trigger automatic reporting thresholds." He finally turned to Dayo. "Where did you get this?"
