“We needed Patricia to state on the record that you were faking your illness.”
Howard turned forty-five degrees, looking at Judge Hanley:
“Because under **Section Fourteen-B of the Bennett Admiralty Founding Indenture of Nineteen-Forty-Four**…”
“Any spouse or collateral relative who commits an act of fraudulent medical conversion, intentional domestic poisoning, or seditious infrastructure sabotage…”
Howard slammed the vellum brief onto the clerk’s desk:
*KABOOOOM.*
“…**FORFEITS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF ALL MARITAL ASSETS, ALL DERIVATIVE CORPORATE EQUITY, AND ALL CUSTODIAL RIGHTS AB INITIO.**”
“Daniel Whitaker is officially bankrupt.”
“His shares in Sterling-Vance Bio-Pharma have been seized under the federal asset forfeiture statutes.”
“His four-thousand-dollar suit… is now state property.”
“And as for the ten-million-dollar estate at 44 Shadow Ridge Drive…?”
Howard bared his yellowed teeth in a cold, unyielding line of bone:
“…the locks were changed by the United States Marshals Service thirty minutes ago.”
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CHAPTER 5: THE CONFESSION ON THE MARBLE
