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Chapter 20 - The money comes back slowly
Elena still had assets.
Townhouse equity.
Brokerage.
Retirement.
Some protected.
Some not.
She agreed to restitution framework:
$612,000 gross improper benefit.
Credits for:
$48,000 legitimate advances.
Certain recovered funds.
Northbridge settlement allocation prevented double recovery.
Criminal restitution order ultimately:
$438,000
directly attributable remaining victim loss after offsets at sentencing stage, subject later civil accounting.
Elena liquidated brokerage.
Sold townhouse.
Not because I forced a fire sale.
Because she needed funds.
She kept protected retirement assets where law required.
Civil judgment covered additional trust losses and fees.
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No one took everything she owned.
Accountability is not confiscation without rules.
