Nothing happened for four months.

Hollis Dunmore made a referral to the SEC’s enforcement division in November and a parallel referral through counsel to the U.S.

Attorney’s office in New Haven in December, both of which consisted of a binder and a meeting.

Then: nothing.

Not a rejection.

Nothing at all.

I called Dunmore twice in January and once in February.

The second time he said, with more patience than I deserved: “Theo.