If DM is innocent then why is he liquidating all of his properties?
He sold them to his mother nearly a year ago, for a token dollar amount, so he is not liquidating them now.
An innocent explanation could be:
(a) he foresaw a lengthy legal battle regardless of outcome, knew he would not be able to manage the properties or follow through on any plans he might have had for them, so he transferred them to his mother.
(b) his mother is not in a position to do property management, or hire employees to do it, or pay property taxes on them, so she has been selling them off one by one. She may be investing the money elsewhere for him or putting it in trust: we have no information on that score.
Or she may be using the proceeds to fund his defense, hire investigators, whatever.
DM does not appear to be wrongly accused, but if he is, he needs the money for lawyers even more. If he is in fact innocent, a la Morin or Truscott, it will take massive legal and detective resources to exculpate himself. In the light of that fact, liquidating assets is not by itself incriminating.
People who *are* innocent and wrongly accused can bankrupt themselves paying for lawyers. This happened to Morin's parents and they were awarded compensation because they exhausted their retirement savings and assets defending him.