Conrad Sorel was extradited from Dubai in March.
It took longer than Marcus had projected, the international process always did, but it happened. The charges were federal. The evidence was clean. Between the sanctions violation attempt, the documented connection to the original attack through his father's case, and the conspiracy charges that the DA's office assembled from both, Conrad Sorel was looking at significant legal consequences.
His father's trial concluded the same month. Phillip Sorel, seventy-one years old and no longer the composed investor of the shareholder dinners, received a sentence that accounted for both his age and the severity of what he had arranged fifteen years ago and hidden for fifteen since.
I sat in the courthouse on the day of the verdict, not because I had
