Karma is a bee-otch.
This parallels the oft-told stories about lottery winners who manage to squander their fortune in a surprisingly short time.
Sad.
Sounds a lot like a liberal congress.
More proof ObamaCare will help the poor...... (Nancy Pelosi)
You still have to work and invest. They just think they will not spend it all. In a few years, it is gone.
After being awarded 20 million—even with the disease—you’d think they’d have enough to live the rest of their days comfortably, and then some. Apparently not.
I’ve been to Carthage. I dont know how you find a $3.9 million house anwhere in that vicinity.
I have little sympathy for people who receive great sums and squander it.
The family could have lived comfortably and given funds to their kids for a head start in their future, if they had used the brains God gave them.
While I am sympathetic to the women's health issues, that does not excuse her and her husband from being totally irresponsible with the money they received from this settlement. How do you go through so much money in such a short period of time? Did they really need a 4 million dollar house? In too many instances, people who win large sums of money from the lottery, or in this case, a lawsuit, think it represents an unlimited supply of money and go on outlandish spending sprees, only to find themselves filing for bankruptcy.
Let me guess:
$20 mill settlement designed to take care of them for life and compensate their pain and suffering.
Lawyer who argued they needed every dime then took 40%.
With $12 million left, they could have invested it a super conservative vehicle and gotten a 3% return of $360,000 a year. Probably 300-400% of their previous income.
BUT, they thought it was a lottery windfall (which it really was) and they went large, buying a home worth 30% of their winnings, er I mean award.
People who come by a large pot of money rarely understand that it isn’t all the money in the world. I’m guessing that their lawyer still has his house.
Easy come, easy go.
QUITE a difference between $3.9 MILLION and $700,000!!!! WHO’s LYING???? And WHY if they just won $20,000,000.00 can they not PAY THEIR MORTGAGE??? Because the LAWYERS got $19,000,000.00!!!!
Just proof that no matter how much money you throw at them, they will always be POOR. GO ROMNEY
Regards,
That happens a lot in my house, I need a Lawyer.
BTW: just how long did he work at that plant? Short of breath, dry cough and wheezing?? Sure, I'm going to work here and suffer through it just long enough to get a few symptoms, find a lawyer and cough in his face.
I love stories with a happy ending.
How dumb could the couple be? They bought a VCR with some of the money.
And now the taxpayers will be paying for a double lung transplant! /s
It was a scam to begin with.