“Progress waits for no bull, sweetie,” I said.
The crowd of three hundred residents erupted into deafening applause.
Six months later, the justice system finished what Taurus started.
Because Cordelia had crossed state lines to launder money with California crypto scammers, and because she had utilized the postal system to send defamatory letters accusing my dead wife of drug trafficking, the federal prosecutors threw the absolute limit of the RICO act at her.
She received seven years in federal prison without the possibility of parole.
Her husband Brad got five years for conspiracy and financial fraud. Four of their co-conspirators, including the Blackstone mercenaries who had tried to plant explosives in my barn, received sentences ranging from three to twelve years.
But the federal asset forfeiture was the most satisfying part to watch. The government seized their Willowbrook Heights McMansion. They seized Brad’s luxury vehicles. They seized their offshore bank accounts. Every single penny they had stolen from the community was returned to the HOA with federal interest penalties.
