sentences:  Monk and Natalie meanwhile go to Union Square to talk to Max Collins, Allegra Doucet's client.Collins states that he had heard about Allegra for quite a while, and then, after he lost $3 million, he had a private investigator do some digging, and found that the companies Collins invested in were paying her to steer wealthy clients her way.He tells Monk and Natalie that on the night Allegra was murdered, he was visiting his mother, just around the corner, so he has an alibi that places him in the neighborhood at the time.