My legal team rushed it to federal prosecutors, along with garage security footage showing two men breaking into my brother’s vehicle.
Forty-eight hours later, every charge against Lionel was dropped.
Chapter 12 — The Deposition
Lionel walked out of the federal building and nearly knocked me over with the force of his arms.
“Nadia wants to testify,” he told me on the way to the car.
“Against Draper and Randall both.
I don’t know if I can ever forgive what she did to us.
But I won’t let those men bury her for telling the truth.”
“Forgiving someone,” I said, “doesn’t mean pretending the damage never happened.”
Nadia gave a full sworn deposition the next morning — the money, the threats, the surveillance.