papertrail
- Private eye's path
- Evidence of corporate wrongdoing, often
- Evidence in white-collar crime
- Embezzlement evidence, perhaps
- Documented evidence, maybe
- Documentation that often uncovers fraud
- Corporate criminal's undoing
- Corporate criminal's downfall
- An investigative journalist follows it
- An attorney may follow it
- What a criminal doesn't want to leave
- Series of leads for a white-collar crime investigator
- Hard evidence a lawyer follows
- Documents proving who did what
- The first to complain after priest hides copy of evidence of activity
- Written documentation
- Accountant's creation
- White-collar crime evidence, perhaps
- Series of documents that trace a path, as suggested by this puzzle
- Sequential written evidence