Chapter 13 - Federal Investigators Are Brought In To Audit Background
By Monday morning, federal investigators from the financial crimes division joined the Caruso legal team downtown.
They raided Jessica’s luxury apartment in Manhattan, seizing computers, bank statements, and forged legal notary stamps.
News vans crowded outside her apartment building as federal agents hauled boxes of evidence into black vans.
Reporters shouted questions about the disgraced bride whose grand wedding scam had imploded overnight.
Jessica sat inside a downtown holding cell, refusing to speak to public defenders without her high-priced lawyer.
Her lawyer, however, had already withdrawn from her case after learning the retainer checks bounced from frozen accounts.
She had no money, no allies, and no way to talk her way out of federal wire fraud and forgery charges.
The invincible confidence she displayed in the wedding boutique had vanished into thin air.
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Inside the federal precinct, the iron bars closed around her with a heavy, final metallic clank.
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