Chapter 12: The Fall of the Vance Trust
In January, the federal hammer dropped on the Vance family empire in Connecticut.
Following the forensic evidence uncovered during the family court dispute, the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission unsealed a sixteen-count indictment against Evelyn Vance and three corporate officers for offshore tax evasion, trust embezzlement, and witness tampering.
Evelyn Vance was forced to liquidate the Greenwich mansion to pay over $24 million in back taxes and civil penalties.
She was stripped of all board directorships and social club memberships, retreating into total obscurity in an anonymous condominium in upstate New York.
Lucas read the news report on his laptop in his woodworking shop while the snow fell gently over the pine trees outside.
He felt no vindictive joy, no triumphant malice.
He simply closed the file, shut down the screen, and picked up his hand plane to finish smoothing the edges of a custom rocking chair for Maya's nursery.
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The past was closed forever; its poison could no longer reach his shore.
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