Reply #13: what I read was, that this was legally their best tactic because they had huge cash payments from

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Dad, and they only had a chance of keeping it if everyone beleived they had no idea, and they were shocked and angry about the crime. But not angry enough to give it back without being compelled to. Didn;t the mother also pretend to have no knowledge, when she was deep in it and getting huge amount of money too?
Bernie spread the money around to try to prevent it from getting back to the victims, and his son with the yacht was, in one way or another, doing the same. This is why he was being investigated.