I don’t know what’s going to happen, to be quite honest.” He was disappointed, he said, that he’d never get to take the Harley road trip across the southern United States that he had always dreamed about.

After bringing down Le Roux, Felix Klaussen moved to South- east Asia.

In 2014, an international sustainable fisheries organization pro- posed that Somalia redevelop its fishing industry, including small- scale fish processing plants strikingly similar to the one Paul Le Roux had envisioned.

As of this writing, Paul Calder Le Roux remains in federal cus- tody in New York City, awaiting sentencing. The last time I saw Le Roux was in the fall of 2018, in a small courtroom on the twelfth floor of a federal courthouse in Manhattan. The hearing—the first in Le Roux’s own case that wasn’t sealed from the public—had been called to assign him new representation. He’d told the court he was finished with Joseph DiBenedetto and ready to accept free court-appointed counsel instead. I wondered if that meant that he’d run out of easily accessible cash. Or perhaps he saw no need to spend any more of it, given how little lawyering was left to be done on his behalf. The most important factor in his sentencing would be the 5K1 letter from the prosecutors, outlining the assis- tance he had provided.

His prospective attorney, a local criminal defender assigned to the case named Xavier Donaldson, walked in half an hour late and had yet to be informed of Le Roux’s charges, or even his name.

The lead prosecutor, Michael Lockard, stepped up to summa- rize Le Roux’s situation for the judge. “Mr. Le Roux has pleaded guilty in this case, and has assisted law enforcement by, among other things, testifying in a trial,” he said. “The court was alerted and we were alerted to some . . . issues between Mr. Le Roux and his attorney.” In an aside to Donaldson, he characterized the is- sues as “a breakdown in attorney-client communications.” Le Roux’s cooperation with the government was now complete,