paper trail

Investors were so worried the South African native would be deported that they even stipulated that he obtain legal status in their contracts, creating a paper trail proving his "illegal" status.

She says some employers covered their tracks by creating a paper trail, which appeared to show she earned the National Living Wage.

Then there is the question of how the deal would be funded, with the minister said to have been unable to find a paper trail showing where the money was going to come from.

The pro-bono lawyer has since been building a paper trail to try to piece together what happened.

He used a paper trail along with Trump’s own people and put together a narrative that the jurors believed: Donald Trump is guilty.