Gerald Lipinski by video from his daughter’s kitchen in Quincy, for nineteen minutes, in a jacket and tie, at eighty-three years old, identifying his own file.

Day two was valuation — two experts disagreeing about a private company’s worth by a margin of about eleven million dollars, which is normal.

Day three was me.

I was on the stand for four hours and ten minutes and Gordon Pell had me for two and a half of it, and he was courteous throughout and it was the worst afternoon of my adult life.

He did not attack me.