About six months later, Dim Bulb was in surgery on a little girl with a brain tumor. Dim Bulb did nothing wrong in the surgery, but the results were not good. The little girl did have some residual paralysis which was permanent. Her parents were livid. Despite warnings given prior to surgery that this might occur and consents received, the parents decided to sue Dr. Bulb for malpractice.

Dr. Bulb went to a noted malpractice defense lawyer Glee Mailey, who told Bulb that he had a good case but it would be expensive to try, but would he consider settling. Bulb said, not for much because I don’t have anything and then cursed about money grubbing lawyers. At that point the lawyer informed Bulb what his retainer would be about $100,000. Bulb notified the Nevis Bank that he was being sued as well as the Alaska Bank. The result was that he stopped receiving statements concerning his account holdings with them. He did charge $100,000 on his VISA card with the Nevis Bank for the retainer and the charge was paid. He then received a letter, telling him that after that payment his limit was now $50,000. This troubled Dim, but he figured it was for his own good and the money would be there down the road. It also meant that he had no clue how much income he had earned on the account. His accountant told him that the income was taxable in the United States, but he didn’t have sufficient facts to pay the taxes, so he went ahead and filed the returns without listing the income from these assets, nor filling out the Financial Control Form required by the Treasury Department since he didn’t at this point know where his money actually was.