Posted on 06/13/2009 8:28:29 AM PDT by george76
Statute of Limitations!!!
If I had $178,496 in crisp currency, and the feds came snooping, I would kindly explain I’m a Community Organizer and an ACORN volunteer.
I’ve no doubt I would soon be leaving with $378,496.00.
The article doesn’t say who actually made the effort to open the safe...and why???
Exactly. I cant figure out why the guy who finally opened it didnt just keep his mouth shut.
The money will almost all be taken by The Lawyer Industry, the Federal Government, and most of all, the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.
Why?
(From the article): “...the state government, after learning about the contested windfall in local press accounts, is chasing the money to recoup $162,000 in unpaid medical bills from the estate of Sally Daher, Joyce Belko and Daher’s mother, who died in 2001 after spending several years in a public nursing home.”
Where assets become available, the state always gets every penny of its Nursing Home Medicaid money back. And they are VERY aggressive in doing so.
Nobody from the family will ever see a penny.
the article DOES say..it was the local fire department who spotted the safe in the lot..even then, the safe was empty..the money was in a “hidden” compartment within the safe...
Ooops.
Scratch that deviously wonderful idea of mine.
Will never work.
You see..... I’m a TWP.
(Typical White Person)
Plus I’m a man. And not a Wise Latina Woman.
(Damn, I’m so screwed!)
Thanks for reading the article.
I admit - I did not. But yet I knew what the result would be.
I happen to know a thing or two about America’s confiscatory greedy legal system.
And if any of the parties do get a dime... I’ll eat my hat.
just tell them where to mail your check...stimulus funds should cover you...
***$178,496 in crisp currency. ***
Silver certificates or worthless Federal Reserve Notes?
Possession is 9/10s of the law.
You are soooooo right. People are not smart enough to keep their mouth shut. You find something, you keep your mouth shut, unless you know for certain whose it was and who the rightful owner IS, otherwise if it is going to become a pissing match, keep your mouth shut. Apprently the family was so stupid that they never questioned the safe and sold it to the new owner who never questioned it and so on. That constitutes abandonment. Hope someone keeps an eye on this and keeps reporting on it.
I don't think so because he says the money belongs to her estate....when in fact....at least 1/2 of it is his in a community property state. (IMHO)
Abandoned property opened by firefighters... Fine the tow truck operator for dumping, give half to the lot owner, and half to the city, and permit the shop owner to sue the renter for theft of the safe.
"Three weeks later, firefighters on patrol spotted the abandoned box, one of its doors ripped off, seemingly empty save for some old papers and wind-blown leaves. But upon closer inspection, they discovered an inner compartment, which they opened with a torch and jackhammer, yielding the hidden treasure"
Its possible that there was lots more cash in the open compartment and explain why the secret stash was missed. Just speculating ... ;-)
There's something just a little wrong with this story...Since there were papers...they knew it was from that Shoe Business....
Firemen do know a lot about "breaking in" to things and places...
All the legal junk I'm reading says it goes to the widower and I'd add that at least 1/2 as community property.
“Somebody needs to learn to keep their mouth shut.”
Really!!! Why on Earth would anyone go around telling everybody? I find money all the time but never turn it in (never more than $50)........
Finders keepers unless you here odf someone losing it and they can identify specifically where and how much...
Waiting for Acorn to step in.
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