personal experience. he himself was a felon, served a year in federal prison for mail fraud. but he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into the a fortune. so most everyone in the building seemed to be living large in those good old premelt down days when into the mix was introduced a new ingredient, a businessman with real money. it was novack said bianca who did the introductions. christopher had an office about two or three blocks from here and he went over there and novack was there with ken and he introduced them. he lived in an enclave, with a big extended family and money to invest. truckloads of money. he d already loaned novack 1.85 million to make a movie about his prison consulting business. and soon ken and chris began working on a real estate name.