There was a queue, and I was not at the front of it.

Julian Vance owed, at that point: a federal restitution order of two point eight four million; a civil judgment to Vance Global that overlapped it; a federal tax liability with penalties and interest; his own criminal defence fees, which were substantial and which had been paid partly in advance; and me.

Federal restitution and federal tax liens are not polite.

They do not wait for a family court.