<VV> Money (humor)

[Harry Jensen]

Hi--

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On 4/19/2013 12:52 PM, Joel McGregor wrote:
> I'll let you in on my super secret plan.  Every time you sell something or have a few extra hundreds in your wallet toss them in a shoebox.  Always buy your Corvair parts out of your bank account.  Before you know it you'll have 15 or 20K and you can buy that Rampside when you find it.

Ever hear of Paul Powell, Illinois Secretary of State in the sixties?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Powell_%28politician%29
> Paul Powell was elected Secretary of State in 1965. The following year, his office was investigated for corruption, but he was exonerated. During his tenure, practice was that any payments made to the Secretary of State's office were made out to simply "Paul Powell". Unsuspecting Illinois residents thought they were writing personal checks for license plate registration.[1] His personal motto was, "There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician, and that's a broke one."
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> Powell died in 1970, in Rochester, Minnesota, as an outpatient of the Mayo Clinic. Some newspapers, such as the Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois, wrote disparaging editorials about Powell immediately after his death, and were criticized for it. However, the media criticism of Powell would soon prove to be well-founded.
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> Although he never made more than $30,000 a year, upon his death, shoeboxes, briefcases and strongboxes with more than $800,000 in cash were found in his hotel suite residence in Springfield, Illinois. In his hotel room he also had 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and two cases of creamed corn. When settled in 1978 his estate was worth $4.6 million, of which $1 million was racetrack stock.

So that's how he got all that money in the shoebox.

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--H