Man Finds $182,000 hidden in bathroom wall!
November 09, 2008
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Interesting story here from Faux News.
Cash Hidden in Ohio House Walls Becomes Contractor's Nightmare
Sunday, November 09, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449114,00.html
CLEVELAND — 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.
It didn't help Reece much, either. She testified in a deposition that she was considering 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.
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Intreresting comments on Digg.com
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Man_Finds_182_000_hidden_in_bathroom_wall
if he was savvy he would have taken his 10 % but in the rarer billls
even i know that any bills larger than $100 are collectors items
during the depression era there were:
The $500 bill featured a portrait of William McKinley
The $1,000 bill featured a portrait of Grover Cleveland
The $5,000 bill featured a portrait of James Madison
The $10,000 bill featured a portrait of Salmon P. Chase
The $100,000 bill featured a portrait of Woodrow Wilson
(all from wiki)
It is worth point out, if they had hidden gold instead of paper money, this would be an even bigger story.
Depression era Gold was $20 - 30 an once. $182,000/20 = 9100 onces of gold.
9100 * $733 an once = $6,670,300.
Of course the US government made it illegal for citizens to own gold in 1933.
Ref: The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933
http://www.the-privateer.com/1933-gold-confiscation.html
From: President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To: The United States Congress
Dated: 5 April, 1933
Presidential Executive Order 6102
Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled
An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes~',
in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists,
I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section to do hereby prohibit the hoarding gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of the order:
Section 9. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or these regulation or of any rule, regulation or license issued there under may be fined not more than $10,000, or,if a natural person may be imprisoned for not more than ten years or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.
It is pretty amazing to think about how much damage the corrupt private cartel the FED has done to the US currency and Constitution.
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