Restitution was ordered in the amount of two million eight hundred and forty thousand dollars, joint and several with the civil judgment, plus a tax obligation with interest and penalties that at the last figure I saw was north of four hundred thousand.

I was in the courtroom.

Arthur was not; he was told not to be, and he sat in a car.

He read a statement.

It was two pages and his lawyer had written some of it and he had written the rest and you could hear the seam.

And the last thing he said, before the judge spoke, was: “I told myself for three years that I was borrowing from myself.”

Which is the most complete explanation of the entire matter that anybody produced in two years, and he produced it in eleven words, in a federal courtroom, at the end.