“Our family only has a chance if I’m not around to bring us down any further,” he wrote. He wrote that he was “crying like a baby” as he thought about how much he loved her and their three daughters. A former chief operating officer at Louis Berkman Investment, he gave her careful financial instructions that would enable her to avoid responsibility for his losses and keep her credit intact: She was to deposit the enclosed check for $4,000 move her funds into a new checking account decline to pay the money he owed the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas disregard his credit-card debt (it was in his name alone) file her tax returns and sign up for Social Security survivor benefits. Stevens, 52, left the casino and wrote a five-page letter to Stacy. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
