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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... honest when they said they had all of the resources they needed to handle claims.Retired Vice Adm. Patrick Dunne, VA’s undersecretary for benefits, said the problem reflects poor document handling procedures, not an effort to prevent veterans from getting what is due them.The ultimate answer, he said, is a completely electronic filing system in which key records are scanned into a...
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... the two couldn’t agree on how to split the money, the resulting publicity alerted the family of Patrick Dunne, who hid the money when he owned the house decades ago. Reece testified in a deposition that she spent about $14,000 on a trip to Hawaii and had sold some of the rare late 1920s bills. She said about $60,000 was stolen from a shoe box in her closet but testified that she never...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
It didn't help Reece much, either. She testified in a deposition that she was considering bankruptcy and that a bank has foreclosed on one of her properties.And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne, the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and high joblessness, will each get a mere fraction of the find."If these two individuals had sat down...
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Bob Kitts ("Finder"), a building contractor, found $157,000 in cash in green metal lockboxes which were suspended inside a wall below a medicine chest and $25,000 in cash in cardboard boxes in another bathroom wall. Amanda Reece ("Property Owner") had hired Finder to remodel her 83 year old home located in Cleveland, Ohio near Lake Erie. Patrick Dunne ("True Owner One") placed the "metal...
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The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
CLEVELAND (AP) - A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication.The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob Kitts, who couldn't agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece.And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne - the wealthy businessman...
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Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... bankruptcy, and a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties. As for the 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne — a wealthy businessman who stashed money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness, only to have it divvied up decades later in a somewhat similar economic climate — they will each get a small fraction of the find. “I called it the greed case,” said Gid...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties. And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne - the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness - will each get a mere fraction of the find."If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.
And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne - the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness - will each get a mere fraction of the find.
"If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne — the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness — will each get a mere fraction of the find."If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne - the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness - will each get a mere fraction of the find."If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge...
