What “that document” was is very important. It was the highly confidential statement of Pierce Marshall’s assets, all of which at the time - or the majority of which, anyway - were comprised of shareholdings in Koch Industries, the largest privately held (and most closely held) company in the US and probably the world.
The value of those assets has never been publicly disclosed and is something that financial analysts and tax people have been chasing and trying to pin down for decades.
Obviously, the Marshall family has to assign a value to it for accounting and tax purposes, but it’s to their benefit to keep it small and they do. On the other hand, the IRS and others who wish to somehow profit from a higher valuation, have pegged the per-share price in the $1000s.
What HKS stole that day and gave to a bankruptcy judge in CA, who put it up publicly on his website, was a document of great value to a good many people more than just Pierce Marshall. The damage done was incalculable and he got away with it!
hmm...wonder if the marshalls can pull a "stern" and sue Stern for disclosure under a non-disclosure agreement?