My practice is an S-corp of which I own one hundred percent of the stock and it has never had any relationship of any kind with his firm.

He had announced, in front of two hundred and forty people including my own clients, that I was ill and was handing him my company.

I walked up the four steps.

I did not take his hand.

I took the microphone out of it — he gave it to me, that is on video, he handed it over with a slightly startled smile because there was no version of the moment in his head where I would want it — and I said four sentences.

“Thank you, Christopher.