CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

in a federal fraud matter. I was just a father listening to his son at the edge of the cliff that choices build one plank at a time.

“You get a lawyer,” I said. “A real one. Not a friend of Linda’s, not someone cheap, not someone promising magic. Then you stop talking to anyone who isn’t counsel.”

He sniffed hard.

“Did you do this?”

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