Chapter 18 - THE FINANCIAL TRIAL
The financial case came nine months later.
By then I was divorced.
The baby was crawling.
Duncan appeared older.
Custody transport rules meant no contact between us.
Evidence:
False $41.31 million asset schedule.
Six-year-old acknowledgments proving he knew title structure.
Email:
Sable can be induced to sign a settlement.
False renovation reimbursements.
Transfers into development company.
The $240,000 payment to the woman.
Projected divorce settlement presented as expected collateral.
The defense argued:
Duncan believed equitable distribution would generate enough value.
The lender never funded.
Some reimbursements covered real improvements.
Marital finances were complex.
All partly true.
The prosecution narrowed.
They did not call the full $8 million “stolen.”
It never funded.
They focused on knowingly false representations and diverted reimbursement funds.
Duncan was convicted on:
False financial statement.
One fraud count tied to diverted reimbursement money.
Acquitted on a broader conspiracy count because evidence did not prove other development-company executives knowingly joined him.
Good.
No conspiracy inflation.
Restitution:
Documented diverted amounts.
Lender investigative costs where legally recoverable.
Property-company losses.
No $41 million fantasy.
Sentence partly consecutive, partly concurrent with remaining domestic-violence consequences depending law.
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I did not celebrate.
I took the baby to the park.
