The sale of Northbrook to the town of Marrow Bay closed the second week of December. I know this because I was there.
Ellis had asked me, through his lawyer, if I would attend the closing as a witness for the foundation. It was a strange thing to be asked, and a stranger thing to do, and I did it. I sat in a room at the town hall with the town manager and the town planner and a title attorney and Ellis and two lawyers and a woman from the state's office who was monitoring the transaction as part of the settlement of the attorney general's inquiry.
The mortgage was paid off in the amount of two hundred forty-one thousand dollars remaining, which was all that was left of the original nine hundred thousand. The foundation's holding companies were being dissolved, and the gala escrow was bei
