Chapter 7 - The House Was Saved, but Then an Old Bank Statement Revealed That Mark Hadn't Acted AloneThe investigation continued.
Police discovered Mark had partners.
The real-estate developer.
A former bank employee.
Harold Jenkins.
And someone else.
Someone I never expected.
Our father's longtime financial adviser.
Arthur Bell.
Arthur had handled Dad's investments for thirty years.
He had been at our family Christmas dinners.
He had helped Dad retire.
He had been trusted.
But records showed Arthur had received payments from Mark.
He had altered statements.
Redirected mail.
And helped hide the stolen money.
Dad was devastated.
“How could he?”
I didn't have an answer.
Arthur eventually confessed.
He said Mark had threatened to expose financial misconduct from years earlier.
But unlike Harold, Arthur had also profited.
He had received hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The investigation recovered much of the money.
Not all.
But enough.
The house was secure.
My parents' finances were restored.
And I finally made a decision.
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I wasn't going back to Boston.
I was staying.
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