Posted on 11/24/2018 7:12:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Meredith) -- A woman who recently purchased a storage unit from "Storage Wars" Dan Dotson found $7.5 million in cash inside the unit.
According to the Desert Sun, the A&E reality "Storage Wars" star sold a unit to a woman for $500 in Southern California. A month later, a friend of the woman told Dotson at a charity event that her friend found the load of cash inside a safe in the unit.
Dotson said the attorney for the original owners of the unit found out their storage was sold and contacted the woman to negotiate a deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at azfamily.com ...
“attorney for the original owners of the unit found out their storage was sold and contacted the woman to negotiate a deal.
The new buyer was offered $1.2 million in exchange for the rest of the money found.
The unidentified woman agreed to the deal and returned the cash,”
I wonder if the irs is interested?
If I know lawyers they paid her with a Nigerian bank check — certified of course.
Wonder what Snopes will say?
Why would anyone negotiate if they already had the money?
What kind of people have millions of dollars of cash? That’s what I would be worried about. I think the buyer thought about that too.
Negotiate a deal about what, exactly?
Hmmm....a good way to launder drug money.
I found it in this storage locker!
“A month later, a friend of the woman told Dotson...”
Some friend. Of course the woman was an idiot to tell ANYBODY! Well - maybe consult with a lawyer in case ten years from now the original owner figures out what happens.
But I’m assuming the auction was all legal. And if it wasn’t, then it would be Dotson that would have to deal with the ramifications.
Sounds like a “take the deal or take a bullet” kind of negotiation.
something isn’t adding up- when a locker gets abandoned, everything in that locker becomes someone else’s property- legally- I guess? I’m sure that’s what’s in the contract that gets signed when someone gets a locker? (That if they abandon it, it is no longer theirs, and becomes the rightful property of whomever buys said locker contents)
Either the owner was a good samaritan, or the original owner made her an offer she couldn’t resist
Already posted..............
About not breaking both her kneecaps
How did the attny find out to whom the unit was sold if the auction company says it keeps that info confidential?
Ask yourself this...who goes out to buy a large safe to put $7.5 million into...with the safe sitting in a rental cube area?
Cops should have walked in with IRS and asked a bunch of questions. It’s absolutely a money-laundering creation.
What ever happened to 50-50?
If by some very odd set of circumstances that are very improbable it was drug money, giving it back would be very prudent. I doubt that is the circumstance in this case - so yea why give it back and why would she tell her neighbor?
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