My husband shoved me, shattering the bathroom mirror. His mother sneered, “Clean up this disgusting mess.” But as I fell, my husband roared, “What’s in your pocket?!” The red LED of my federal distress fob pulsed. Denied the third click, I threw myself onto the broken glass, and…

enabling family was equally spectacular. Beatrice, the elegant socialite who thought herself untouchable, was facing a decade for wire fraud and money laundering through a non-profit. Arthur had his corporate empire seized under federal asset forfeiture laws; he was bankrupt and awaiting his own trial for racketeering.

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