Damages

Ten months after the UNR lawsuit, Patty Hewes is the court-appointed trustee representing the victims of financier Louis Tobin's $70 billion Ponzi scheme. With Ellen Parsons having left to work as an Assistant D.A. prosecuting drug crimes, Patty's immediate challenge is to keep her angry and destitute clients from seeking their own revenge as she sorts through mountains of complex paperwork in...

In the wake of the stunning news that his father, Louis, has squirreled away a large sum of money from his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, Joe Tobin learns that his family's apartment is being seized by the Manhattan D.A. Now under siege as a result of his father's crimes, Joe tries frantically to keep his family from being ruined. And as both Patty and Tom look for evidence of any money...

As Joe Tobin and his lawyer try to hide an incriminating witness, Patty seeks leverage with the D.A.'s investigation as Tom tells his in-laws that their investments in the Tobin Ponzi scheme have bankrupted them.

As Patty pressures him to reveal the location of the money he stashed following his multibillion-dollar fraud, Louis Tobin looks to keep his son Joe's drinking from jeopardizing the family once he has been sent to prison.

As details about Louis Tobin's affair emerge, Ellen is surprised by a reporter she worked with on the UNR case; Joe Tobin finds the one person who knows where his father stashed his ill-gotten gains.

As Tom looks to dig out from under the crisis precipitated by the Tobin fraud, he and Patty are also forced to defend her actions as trustee for the bankrupted investors. Certain that Tobin hid substantial sums of cash belonging to his victims, Patty turns to jailed con man Sterling Biddle for help in finding the money and its link to Tobin's late mistress, Danielle Marchetti. And as Tom uses...

Determined to uncover Louis Tobin’s ill-gotten gains, Patty pressures lawyer Leonard Winstone to make a deal, while Tom heads for Antigua where Tobin’s illegitimate daughter, Tessa Marchetti, has maintained a bank account for several years. Unable to make any headway with the bank manager, Tom stays on to question Tessa. And though Winstone steadfastly stands by his clients, Patty’s reputation...

Although Tessa Marchetti is cooperating with their investigation into her father Louis Tobin's investment fraud, Antiguan Finance Minister Horatio Emanuel promises Stuart Zedeck, Leonard Winstone and Joe Tobin that the lawyers will never see the confidential banking records they need. Already skeptical of Emanuel, Patty suggests turning their attention to Tobin's daughter, Carol, whom Ellen...

With Carol Tobin being kept under wraps to prevent her from being questioned about Danielle Marchetti's suspicious death, Leonard Winstone suggests she consider returning to see her psychiatrist. Though Carol is noncommittal about the prospect, Winstone's concerns that she is on the verge of suicide lead him to make the appointment for her. So, unable to question Carol directly about...

Now that Patty and Tom know Tessa Marchetti lied about her whereabouts on the Thanksgiving when Louis Tobin confessed, a review of her airline work schedule reveals that, rather than being used to deposit money in the Antiguan bank at the time, she was ferrying Tobin’s stolen cash back home. Despite what this means for their case, Patty is told that the plaintiffs are petitioning the judge to...

As Tessa Marchetti’s arrest pushes Patty into making a deal with the D.A., and Ellen uncovers the truth about her parents, worries about having his family’s hidden assets exposed lead Joe Tobin to take drastic action.

With Tom struggling to adjust to his sudden unemployment, and movie producer Gail Sturmer pressing Arthur Frobisher to expound upon his criminal past, Ellen gets the green light from the D.A. to draft an immunity agreement for Leonard Winstone. While Winstone assures both Ellen and Tom that he will give them everything they need to nail the Tobins, a suspicious money transfer leads Joe Tobin...

With Tom struggling to adjust to his sudden unemployment, and movie producer Gail Sturmer pressing Arthur Frobisher to expound upon his criminal past, Ellen gets the green light from the D.A. to draft an immunity agreement for Leonard Winstone. While Winstone assures both Ellen and Tom that he will give them everything they need to nail the Tobins, a suspicious money transfer leads Joe Tobin...