“My mother-in-law pointed at me in court and said, “She’s faking it.” My husband smirked, telling the judge I did this every time….007

– Patricia Sterling-Whitaker was convicted of Complicity to Commit Depraved-Heart Felony Assault and Secondary Wire Fraud. Sentenced to eighteen years at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas, her four-hundred-thousand-dollar pearl collection and private accounts auctioned on the courthouse steps in Omaha to provide eight point four million dollars in permanent restitution to victims of domestic chemical abuse across the Midwest, she spends thirty hours a week cleaning hospital bedpans, having finally learned what genuine care entails.

– The Four Hundred Million Dollars in recovered strategic defense reserves and the sixty billion dollars in forfeited offshore assets were formally deeded in absolute, un-encumbered fee simple to The Clara & Arthur Bennett Sovereign Sanctuary, administering free advanced vocational training, forensic auditing certifications, and debt-free university scholarships for twenty-four thousand single mothers and working-class families across North America every year.

The crushed-gravel path from the lower garden gate crunched softly.

Walking up the cedar steps of the deck, wearing an unbuttoned flannel work shirt over a clean gray t-shirt, carrying a wooden tray holding three warm blueberry scones and two steaming ceramic mugs of fresh coffee, was Colonel Aaron Carter.