He did not have a network.

There was no laptop full of stolen files and there was, in the end, not a single stolen document in the entire case.

He was a sixty-eight-year-old man with a permanent industry bar, a fourteen-and-a-half-million-dollar restitution order that he was never going to satisfy, and a skill set that had exactly one application, which he was legally forbidden from applying.

So he did what a great many barred men do, which is consult.