Shine OnMan returns $98K found in Craigslist desk to seller
A young Rabbi from New Haven, Connecticut is being hailed a man of integrity after returning the $98,000 he found buried inside a desk he purchased on Craigslist for just $150.
Noah Muroff, a high school teacher at a private Jewish school, found a bag of $98,000 cash inside one of the drawers of the newly purchased desk intended for his office. He and his wife called the seller, a middle-aged woman only identified as Patty, to return the money.
"We were looking at each other and laughing," Muroff tells CNN upon finding the money. "This kind of thing only happens in the movies."
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It turns out Patty stashed her inheritance money there, but she was unable to retrieve it when it fell behind the desk's filing drawer. She assumed that the money was somewhere else in her home when she couldn't find it and sold the desk, never thinking it still contained her nest egg.
"I cannot thank you enough for your honesty and integrity. I do not think there are too many people in this world that would have done what you did by calling me," Patty writes in a letter to the family. "I will be forever grateful."
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Muroff, a father of four young kids, took the opportunity to teach them about honesty by taking them with him when he returned the money. When they arrived, Patty offered the family a monetary reward along with a full refund of the desk.
This isn't the first good deed involving returned money to make headlines in recent months. In September 2013, a homeless man in Boston turned in a lost backpack with over $40,000 in cash and traveller's cheques to police, and in August of 2013 a Goodwill employee found $10,000 cash in an envelope and returned it to her manager, who decided to create a trust fund until the owner claimed it.
What are your thoughts on these Good Samaritans? Have you ever returned lost money? Tell us in the comments below.
