The man's name was Theodore Ciogotti.
If you think I didn't immediately go downstairs and Google him, you are wrong.
He was nonexistent online, no social medias, no tabloids covering his apparently vast wealth. It was like trying to look up a member of BlackRock or Vanguard--clearly, he had people working for him who knew how to keep his information private.
That alone was worrisome.
Filthy rich individuals who don't want to be known usually have a reason to stay under the radar. Corruption, perhaps. If he has many billions of dollars, which I thought he must based on the numbers on the mortgage, he might just be a resource hoarding piece of trash. Exploitation of the lower class has been proven necessary to reach extreme figures like that.
Still, he was apparently a friend of The
