Chapter 10 - Brooks Family Services
Selina’s company was the easiest part of the case to understand and the hardest for her to explain.
Brooks Family Services LLC sounded like a social-work nonprofit.
It was not.
It was a consulting company Flynn helped her create after Miles was born.
Corporate purpose:
Strategic advisory.
Executive recruitment.
Market research.
Selina had skills.
She was intelligent.
That made the false invoices worse.
She knew what real work looked like.
The audit categorized $812,000 in payments.
Approximately $185,000 supported by legitimate deliverables.
Another $96,000 could plausibly represent loosely documented work but needed adjustment.
The remaining amount consisted of unsupported or clearly personal benefit.
Apartment rent.
Car lease.
Private travel.
Childcare.
Personal health costs.
Some payments were compensation to Selina and might have tax implications rather than direct theft depending structure.
Others were false company expenses.
Investigators focused on strongest transactions.
They did not call all $812,000 stolen.
Good.
Then Selina’s role in the fake Miles trust.
She had no authority to create it.
She did not create my signature.
Device metadata pointed to Flynn’s office.
But she possessed the document and used it once.
A private school application for Miles? Too young. Instead apartment lease guarantee? Let's keep adult: she submitted a copy to a private wealth adviser while seeking an apartment lease, claiming Miles had substantial family trust backing.
The landlord relied partly on Flynn’s personal guarantee too.
No major loss.
Still evidence she treated the fake trust as real.
Did she know it was fake?
The messages complicated.
“That’s horrible.”
“Administrative.”
She suspected.
She did not investigate.
Then the invoices.
One message:
Selina:
$54k for a report I haven’t done?
Flynn:
Do it later.
Selina:
That is literally backwards.
Flynn:
Welcome to family business.
She sent a report three weeks later.
Another:
Selina:
Why is my apartment being coded as research housing?
Flynn:
Because accounting cannot process mistress apartment.
She replied with a laughing emoji.
That line hurt more than I expected.
Not because of the apartment.
Because of how ordinary the deception had become to them.
Then she stopped laughing in later messages.
Selina:
I don’t want Miles tied to fake invoices.
Flynn:
Then stop spending.
Selina:
You told me this was his support.
Flynn:
It is.
Selina:
Then pay personally.
No answer.
She had begun pushing back.
Too late.
Still relevant.
Then investigators offered a cooperation framework.
Not immunity.
Selina could plead to selected false-invoice and tax-related conduct, provide truthful evidence, pay restitution on proven personal benefits, and receive consideration.
She asked for no incarceration.
Prosecutors refused to promise.
Her attorney advised acceptance.
She hesitated.
Why?
Miles.
If incarcerated, childcare.
Flynn could not become primary caregiver while facing his own case and custody restrictions.
Selina’s parents lived in Vermont and had never approved of Flynn.
They agreed to care for Miles if necessary.
Then she accepted.
I learned only after the agreement was signed.
Her cooperation required all devices.
All financial records.
No false statements.
Then she turned over something else.
A handwritten notebook Flynn kept at her apartment.
Dark blue leather.
Inside:
Miles.
Grace.
Mabel.
Three headings.
Under Miles:
Recognition.
Trust.
Public surname.
Under Grace:
Female.
Standard support.
No leadership expectation.
Under Mabel:
Postpartum.
Trustee removal.
Divorce timing.
Then a fourth heading.
Me.
Under it:
Chair.
Voting control.
Northline rescue.
I stared.
There it was.
The children were not the center.
The mistress was not the center.
May you like
Even I was not the center.
Flynn’s plan always ended at himself.
