A certain public office occupant sits on a debt that refuses to age gracefully and may become the source of serious problems in the coming years, Nosy Tarsee’s grapevine buddies warn.

They are talking about a US court judgment of more than $353.6 million, entered against a mother-and-son pair in 2011 by a federal judge in Hawaii and affirmed the following year by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as the largest contempt award ever upheld by a US appellate court.

The penalty stemmed from defying a standing 1995 injunction and ignoring a $100,000-a-day contempt fine for nearly a decade, allowing the amount to compound like a bad loan nobody intended to repay.

In 2019, a different ruling quietly extended enforcement of that judgment through 25 January 2031, meaning the clock is still running.

What has kept the case alive is diplomatic immunity, a protection confirmed by the US State Department in 2022, when Washington made clear that no handcuffs would be waiting at the jet bridge. Convenient. But titles expire. Terms end. And $353.6 million judgments, last we checked, do not observe term limits.

So the guessing game is this: What happens on 26 January 2031? Does immunity evaporate the moment the motorcade stops rolling, leaving three decades of accumulated contempt fully enforceable against any US property that happens to be within reach?

Our sources say the claimants’ lawyers have never really gone away; they have simply been waiting for diplomatic immunity and the enforcement clock to stop pointing in different directions.

For a family whose modern political rehabilitation has been built on the idea that the old debts no longer matter, a nine-figure judgment with a 2031 expiration date is an inconvenient reminder.

But someone, somewhere, is counting down.