Chapter 21 - THE FALL OF JULIAN
By noon that day, state troopers intercepted Julian Sterling at a private marina in Montauk, Long Island.
He was caught attempting to board a seventy-foot luxury yacht bound for international waters in the Caribbean.
Footage of his arrest played continuously on news networks, showing him handcuffed in his ruined charcoal suit.
With both Eleanor and Julian facing life sentences in federal prison, the Sterling empire collapsed into complete receivership.
Clara was officially appointed by the New York State Bankruptcy Court to oversee the liquidation of Sterling Global assets.
She redirected seventy percent of the family’s remaining wealth into a charitable trust dedicated to wrongful conviction victims.
The grand Sterling mansion in Greenwich was sold at a public auction, with all proceeds going to federal restitution funds.
The reign of terror that had dominated Manhattan high society for thirty years was finally, permanently over.
Clara stood on the steps of the federal courthouse, surrounded by dozens of news reporters holding microphones.
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"Justice is not a privilege for the powerful... it is a right for everyone," Clara declared to thirty million national viewers.
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