Petrovsky's sentencing hearing took place three weeks before Kingsley's graduation ceremony, a formal proceeding Ivy attended via video connection alongside her mother, Ashworth, and Voss, the whole assembled group watching as the judge delivered a sentence that finally, definitively closed the chapter Nikolai's original scandal had first cracked open more than a year earlier.
"Fourteen years," the judge announced, her voice carrying across the video connection with formal, unwavering gravity. "Reflecting the extensive scope of the defendant's documented misconduct, spanning multiple decades and jurisdictions, and the significant, lasting harm inflicted on numerous families whose careers and reputations were destroyed through deliberate, systematic fraud."
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