The financial settlement was larger than we dared hope. Richard was ordered to return all assets that had originally belonged to Morrison Construction, plus 15 years of lost earnings, plus punitive damages for the emotional trauma he’d caused.
When everything was calculated, including the current value of the business he’d built on our stolen foundation, the total came to nearly $12 million.
But more than the money, what mattered was the public vindication. Richard’s crimes were front page news in our small town’s newspaper. Everyone who’d ever known us learned the truth about what he’d done.Support Causes
The man who’d spent years portraying himself as a successful entrepreneur was revealed as nothing more than a thief who’d robbed his own parents.
6 months after that first phone call, Blaine and I stood in the kitchen of our new home. A modest two-bedroom house with a garden where I could grow vegetables and a workshop where Blaine could tinker with woodworking projects.
