My Father Claimed I Was “Mentally Unfit” to Control $5 Million—Then I Opened the Blue Folder

requirements, the magic numbers that transformed theft from a family squabble into a federal offense. I learned that if you let someone steal enough money, in the right ways, across the right jurisdictions, they don’t just become a thief—they become a federal problem with mandatory minimum sentences that don’t care about family connections or sob stories.continue reading …