It began with a deadly fall, an empty safe and a group of dismayed investors. But it ended with a $2 million settlement — with the help of Jeffrey Sonn of Sonn Law Group in Aventura and James Sallah and Joshua Katz of Sallah Astarita & Cox in Boca Raton, who spent three years litigating across two states to clawback money lost to an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Sonn was pulled into the case in 2016 when a Mississippi family called, worried they had been conned.