My Brother Sold Our Restaurant For $1.4M — My $96,000 Lien Was Already Recorded

In October 2016, Nora Petrucci was invited to a forty-year anniversary dinner for her father at a banquet hall in Loves Park, Illinois. Twenty-three relatives, a rented room, chicken Vesuvio, and a brother who had never picked up a check in his life. He stood up with a glass of Korbel, announced that the family restaurant on Kishwaukee Street had a buyer, slid a $4,188.24 bill next to her water glass, and put a four-page release under her bread plate with a notary stamp sitting out on the table. What he forgot was what his sister does for a living, and what she did in June 2013 when she wired $96,000 to save that building's kitchen: she paid a lawyer $450, had her father sign a note and a mortgage, and spent $52 at window three of the county recorder's office. Five days later, in a conference room on Charles Street, a $1,410,000 closing came down to one line on a settlement statement. 0:00 Intro 1:40 A Text at 4:41 3:37 Window Three, June 14, 2013 8:22 Gravel, Garlic, and the Glove Box 10:24 The Toast 13:54 By the Ice Machine 16:17 Seventy-One Seconds 24:10 What Recorded Means 26:39 Line 504 31:09 Est. 1976 #familydrama #revengestory #familystories #storytime #dramastories