My Parents Tried to Force a Waiver for $450,000. By Morning, My X-Rays Were Evidence and the Police Were Walking In.

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“I know,” I said. “That’s why I’m not asking you to take my word for anything.”

I explained then, as clinically as I could, what I needed from him. Illinois was a two-party consent state; I couldn’t record my parents without their knowledge and expect the recording to be admissible. But if they confessed to fraud, extortion, or attempted continue reading …