I will investigate this $800M sale price tomorrow as it seems strange to me given the value of the house.
I'll explain what I originally meant by taking back a note on the sale. But, even if a note is taken back on the sale the total sale price would have to be reported to the town and this is why I'm baffled by the $800M reported (possible reporting error by paper?). IDK but I will check it out and report back if I figure anything out.
e.g., Say you want to buy a house for $1MM but can't get a mortgage or didn't have all the cash except for a downpayment amout of $100,000. You would give your downpayment (say $100,000) to the seller and the seller would loan you the remaining $900,000 to purchase the property. Seller is acting just like a bank in this example and most likely would take a mortgage on the property to secure its interest in case you didn't pay back what is owed.
So, each month instead of paying your mortgage payment to the bank you just send your money (principal and interest or maybe just interest with principal to be repaid in the very distant future!) to FORE Group. There are various different ways to play this game with repayment as you can play with interest rate charged and the total term of repayment.
My point in bringing this up is that it could have been possible to make this all look like very little income was being received by FORE Group as they could have structured the note with a very large payment in the future (balloon payment 5-10 years from now and long after divorce was complete) and low interest being paid each month. If some very deferred payment plan was agreed upon for this property I could see where JD would be understandably angry given that FD was simultaneously pleading poverty in Family Court. Hope this helps explain it a bit. There are lots of way to structure a sale and we don't know exactly what he did here on this property.