But it wasn’t enough. In 2014, he struck up an affair—not his first—with a woman named Adellene Balgobin, a clerk at the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, a little-known provincial department. Its mandate is to manage the affairs of Ontario citizens who have no one else to look after them, which includes ensuring that the estates of these people are properly administered after they die. Their stories are often heartbreaking accounts of mental incapacity, loss and abandonment.
One day, a tantalizing file crossed Balgobin’s desk: a man named Heinz Sommerfeld had passed away after a long and lonely battle with dementia. He was estranged from his half-brother, and his estate was worth $834,000, unusually large for someone in the OPGT’s care. Seized by avarice, Balgobin and Konashewych pillow-talked…
