Chapter 8 - Cracks in the Cruel Daughter-in-LawThe Fourth of July party ended not with champagne toasts and corporate deals, but with Harvey and Bethany being driven away in the back of police cruisers while twenty-six humiliated guests quickly gathered their belongings and fled the estate.
By eight o'clock the following morning, the news of the "Silver Lake Fourth of July Fraud" had hit every local newspaper and business journal in the county.
Mr. Sterling and the angel investors filed formal corporate lawsuits against Harvey's startup, demanding the immediate return of all preliminary deposit funds.
Without my Silver Lake property to leverage, Harvey's business went into instant bankruptcy liquidation.
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Meanwhile, Bethanyâs high-society friends abandoned her completely. When she attempted to access their joint personal account to post Harveyâs fifty-thousand-dollar bail, she discovered that First National Bank had frozen every single account pending the criminal trial!
She was forced to spend three weeks living in a cheap budget motel on the edge of town, selling her designer handbags online just to pay for meals.
