I want to be precise about that, because it matters both legally and morally.

I did not spread rumors, or call his lenders, or pressure his clients, or do any of the thousand illegal or merely vindictive things a wealthy, wronged person can do to ruin someone.

My attorneys did exactly one thing: they stopped my family’s trust from continuing to guarantee a company it had been quietly propping up for years, and they turned the lights on and let auditors look at the books.

That was all.