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Chapter 541 How Rich Came to be Dead

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William took a sip of his white wine as he reclined his seat in first class. He was off to the Cayman Islands. He couldn't quit grinning to himself. His plan had worked out so perfectly and now his psycho client Rich was dead. He never had to worry about him again.

Slick Willie earned the nickname, but he'd been extraordinarily clever even for him. When he convinced that dipshit Rich that he was going to buy a judge, he hadn't even questioned it. In Rich's world everyone was up for sale. He didn't even question that the judge might be ethical and beyond being bribed. Rich believed everyone has a price.

True, he might have been able to buy the judge, but that was never the plan. He just needed Rich to believe the judge could be bought and he would get out on bail. Of course, Rich wasn't planning on sticking around for a trial. He'd be out of the country within 24 hours of getting bail; that's why the judge wouldn't set bail. He was no fool.

Rich handed over all the wallet information and he'd gotten out of the crypto market at the perfect time—before it crashed and went to hell. And then, he'd had so much fun telling Rich all the crypto was gone taken by hackers. Rich's face turned purple with rage. He began yelling and shouting demanding to know how this could have happened. It was funny as hell because Rich's hands were shackled and he couldn't do a damned thing to him.

William shrugged and told him that crypto gets hacked all the time sometimes by governments like North Korea and sometimes by hacking groups of thieves. It was so funny that he was outraged that he'd been a victim of a crime. The guy was a hardcore crook in a designer suit and now in prison orange. And of course he couldn't go to the cops about the missing crypto because the money was illegally obtained.

It got funnier after Rich calmed down. He got emotional. The man that was so cruel and ruthless was sobbing like a baby, his body wracked with big convulsive sobs. He ended the meeting with Rich being led away still sobbing because he'd lost all his money and had no hope of getting out of jail on bail. It was an absolutely delicious moment.

Now that William had cleaned out his crypto accounts and the government had frozen his assets, Rich was broke. He couldn't even afford to pay him, but he kindly worked on Rich's case for a few more days not out of charity but as part of his plan.

He told Rich his only way out of rotting in prison was to make a deal and roll on his partners. Rich wasn't a moral kind of person and he had no trouble ratting out everyone. All William had to do was put the word out that Rich was going to make a deal; the rest took care of itself.

Here was where the slick part of his name came in. He met with the guys Rich was going to rat out and got them to pay him for that information. He ratted out Rich and got paid for it. Every little bit of money helped. That's why companies who make billions screw their lowest level employees out of every penny they can like Amazon.

Stupid Rich didn't know that once word got out he was going to make a deal, he was marked for death. It had only taken three days from when he'd gone to Rich's ex business partners and to the Federal prosecutors before Rich got his head beaten in.

Now he had all of Rich's crypto converted into dollars in an offshore account where the Feds couldn't get it and then he was going to live like a king.

Rot in hell Rich! William couldn't contain his happiness any longer and he chuckled out loud.

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Author's Note: I wanted to definitively wrap Scarlett's psycho ex's storyline once and for all. When I put him in prison, I never intended for him to get out, but some readers thought that was a possibility, so I wanted to make sure I made it clear that Scarlett's psycho ex Rich was dead.

Also, it's a good lesson Never Trust an Attorney. Even your attorney will try to screw you when it comes to money. Protect yourself. I speak from personal experience.

I am a true crime fan because I'm always looking for interesting things to add to stories. There's a case out of South Carolina—Alex Murdaugh. He's an attorney whose wife and son were shot to death about a year ago. A month or so later, he claimed he was shot in the head by two men. He lived.

And then everything began to unravel. There's a podcast and it's all over the internet. He had a long-time housekeeper who was knocked down stairs by his dogs. He suggested to her two adult sons they sue him for wrongful death and collect on his homeowner's policies. What a nice guy! He even recommended an attorney—his old college roommate. Neither he nor their attorney disclosed this connection. The insurance companies settled, but the sons never got the money. Turns out Murdaugh and the sons' attorney and a banker kept the money. After a couple of years, the sons sued and have received the millions that should have gone to them. Murdaugh admitted to diverting the money.

Millions are also missing from his law firm and he was recently indicted for his wife and son's murder. He's being held without bail on over thirty fraud charges for the theft of millions of dollars. He's also had no bail set for the murder charges. He and his wife were living separately. He wanted to meet her at their country home. She wisely wanted to meet in public. He insisted on the country home meeting and she unwisely went texting her friend immediately before the meeting that he was up to something. Listen to your instincts! She and her adult son Paul were shot to death.

He's got an insurance fraud charge because he's being accused of hiring the guy that shot him so his remaining son Buster could collect the multi-million dollar life insurance. Buster got kicked out of law school for bad grades and plagiarism. Alex hired a guy for over $60,000 to try to get his kid back into law school.

Adding to the fun, he's from an old legally powerful Southern family. He is accused of cheating friends, his business partners and clients. His bank president friend was forced to resign from the bank his family founded over a hundred years ago and is in legal trouble as well.

I need to find the podcast because it must be amazing. Can't wait until it's made into a mini-series. He is alleged to have stolen from some truly needy clients. I just don't get how you can leave with yourself doing things like that.