Chapter 23 - CONRAD’S SENTENCE
Conrad received a longer financial sentence than Eleanor, shorter than internet commenters demanded.
Age.
Leadership.
Loss amount.
No prior record.
Restitution.
Forfeiture of fraud-derived Red Pine gains.
Permanent restrictions on serving as trustee and Hartman Ridge executive.
His legitimate shares remained his subject to penalties and civil settlement.
He wrote me once.
You mistook family discipline for criminality.
I sent it to my lawyer.
No reply.
Years later he wrote another:
I thought if everyone obeyed, the company would survive.
Closer.
May you like
Still centered on company.
I never answered.
