Chapter 24 - ARTHUR’S SENTENCE
Arthur received a substantial federal sentence.
Age sixty-eight by then.
Leadership.
Loss amount.
False documents.
Related-party concealment.
No prior criminal conviction.
Real company-building history.
Restitution.
Forfeiture of fraud-derived North Crest proceeds.
Permanent bar from fiduciary control of Vance Meridian and relevant trusts.
His legitimate personal assets not all confiscated.
Appeal followed.
One wire count later vacated because jury instruction was too broad.
Central convictions remained.
Sentence reduced modestly.
Legal correction.
Not vindication.
Arthur eventually moved to a lower-security facility as he aged.
He never wrote me.
He wrote Evelyn once.
I returned it because she was too young.
At eighteen, I told her it existed.
May you like
She declined.
Choice.
