Chapter 7 - MY FIRST RETALIATION
The morning after the ICU incident, I ordered three things.
All wrong.
Cancel Bishop Commercial’s lease negotiations with Savarese Properties.
Suspend a joint hotel development where Cole was an investor.
Stop processing reimbursements to a Bishop-managed construction company.
My general counsel, Hannah Price, stared at the email.
Then called me.
“No.”
“He removed oxygen from my granddaughter.”
“Yes.”
“He blocked a doctor.”
“Yes.”
“Then why are we discussing this?”
“Because the construction company did not remove oxygen from anyone.”
“Cole owns thirty percent.”
“And seventy percent belongs to other investors.”
I said nothing.
Hannah continued.
“The lease negotiation involves forty-seven employees whose offices have nothing to do with him.”
“He should feel consequences.”
“He will.”
“Not enough.”
“Then use courts.”
I hated that sentence.
Because it was slow.
Because it was correct.
One payment had already been paused.
$186,000 owed for completed construction work.
Holding it could violate contract.
I released it before the banking cutoff.
Then sent written instructions:
No entity-wide retaliation. All Bishop-related contracts continue under ordinary review unless specific legal cause exists.
Cole’s lawyer later obtained that first email.
Of course.
It became Exhibit 14 in family court.
ENRICO SAVARESE ATTEMPTS ECONOMIC RETALIATION AFTER FAMILY DISPUTE.
The characterization was not entirely false.
My rage gave Cole evidence for the exact argument he had been building:
May you like
Enrico interferes.
That would cost me later.
