"Pursglove hired the employees, trained them and helped manage the offices."
And yet she had no idea about where the money went, the people paid to manage it, or really anything else. She was scorned, I get that, and she wanted half of what was his...not hers.
"Another bank statement they handed over showed that on a single day in 2014, Oesterlund transferred $48 million into one of the Cook trusts. It was the same day, Fisher quickly realized, that Pursglove discovered Oesterlund with his new girlfriend. Fisher believed this would be strong evidence in court that the trust had been set up in anticipation of owing his wife money, which even in most offshore jurisdictions is against the law."
Or, consider this quote:
"It turned out that in early 2013, after Pursglove asked Xacti’s executives to inform her of any large cash transfers or major business decisions, Oesterlund ordered Middleton to cut her off. Over email, he told Middleton to ban her from their Boca Raton offices and to remove Pursglove as a signatory to the company bank accounts."
Oesterlund went out of his way to freeze Pursglove out of the bank accounts and even funded a $48 million trust when she found out that he had a girlfriend. How could anyone reasonably conclude that she should have an idea where the money went? It seems way more reasonable to conclude that he conducted an organized campaign to keep her from knowing that information.
A less charitable interpretation would be that Oesterlund and Pursglove knew they were involved in an illegal operation and wanted to give Pursglove the chance to say, "I don't know" if she were under investigation by the Secret Service, etc.
If the husband has/had any integrity, he demonstrated it by fighting this in court, instead of handing someone a picture of his wife and $250,000 in cash.