Chapter 20 — Eight Months

Eight months later, Seraphina pleaded guilty to fraud, witness intimidation, forgery, and assault.

Folarin drew eleven years after federal prosecutors reopened his old connections to the trafficking network.

The properties the court seized from them funded victim housing and paid back every stolen charity dollar, down to the last one.

It was, in the end, the disaster-relief donors and the survivors who got the villas and the aircraft — converted, sold, turned back into the help they had been given for in the first place.

There was a symmetry to it that I did not engineer but was glad of.