From: rajiv@hilltop.mitre.org (Rajiv Kohli)
Subject: $62,000 have been stolen
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:58:25 GMT


> THEREFORE, THE ONLY THING WE CAN SUE FOR IS THE MISSING MONEY,
> INTEREST LOST OVER THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS, AND THE AMOUNT WE SPEND ON
> LONG DISTANCE PHONE CALLS AND POSTAGE. WE CANNOT SUE FOR ANYTHING
> ELSE, INCLUDING THE OUTRAGEOUS COST OF THE ATTORNEYS.
>
> Now, does anyone else have any ideas?
>
>
>
>
	Bad Publicity again and again and again and again!
	
Yes, Call up Diana Sawyer on PrimeTime. They will love to
blast the bank. Also, take the opportunity to call up a good
investigative report like Heraldo and Channel 9 "On your
Side" in NY. Remember, they do these things for a living.
In your original posting you had mentioned that part of it
was recovered as it was obvious that some of the check were
fraudulent. Did you write to the FBI. Doesn't hurt. 

Just an idea. I think it may not be the best one but give it a shot.
Look up a group (Lions Club, some charity, maybe MDA) and promise to
donate, lets say 5k out of it if they can recover the amount. They
will get some lawyer on their own and hunt the bank down. I hope that
you have already started taking this as a deduction on your income
tax. However, small the kickback. You can save yourself some money
there and consider that to be recovered. I don't know the details of
how to work it out as this was your father-in-laws money. Right.
Maybe you can show it that it was gifted to you. So if you are in 20-30%
bracket. You can have part of it come back through Uncle Sam. 

Hire a school boy to stand outside the bank and distribute a flyer to
every passer by indicating how the bank stole the money. It will
work.
> 
> >From att-mt!convex.com!jgreat Thu Sep 24 12:29:11 1992
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> From: jgreat@convex.com (J L Greathouse)
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> Subject: Re: $62,000 has been stolen...
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> Date: 24 Sep 92 16:29:11 GMT
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> In article <1992Sep22.203716.8336@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> vijay@wizards.austin.ibm.com writes:
> >
> >In article <1992Sep22.004114.16751@microsoft.com>, dipand@microsoft.com (Dipan Dewan) writes:
> >> In article <1992Sep18.033638.19775@news.eng.convex.com> jgreat@convex.com (J L Greathouse) writes:
> >> >The State Bank of India in New York has allowed $62,00.00 to be stolen
> >> >from my family.
> >> >
> >> >  [...details deleted...]
> >> >
> >> >Does anyone have any ideas? Isn't there some way we can press criminal
> >> >charges against the bank (without hiring an attorney)? Isn't this sort
> >> >of thing illegal?  Why won't someone help? Do we really have to pay so
> >> >much to get help?
> >
> >Why don't you want to hire an attorney.  Scared?  Sue the bank for
> >gods sake, you are in America....
> >
> >-- 
> >**********************************************************************
> >               Vijay Joglekar - arbiter elagantiarum
> > Disclaimer: These are my opinions and my opinions only. Has nothing
> >                      to do with where I work.
> 
> 
> Please, don't assume I haven't hired an attorney out of *fear* - of
> course I am in America, I was born here and I know my rights.
> Unfortunately, my rights as a citizen don't cover being able to stop
> the State Bank of India from ripping us off, with an attorney or
> without.
> 
> What the bank has done, according to the New York Police Dept and the
> New York District Attorney's Office doesn't fall into the category of
> *criminal*, which is what it takes to get those organizations
> involoved. Because the case is civil, we have to hire an attorney to
> fight. The reason I asked for ideas *other than* hiring an attorney is
> because 1) each one I've talked to wants to take as fees between 33%
> and 40% of whatever money is recovered, and 2) in NY state, attorney's
> fees are NEVER covered under punitive, or other, damages.
> 
> THEREFORE, THE ONLY THING WE CAN SUE FOR IS THE MISSING MONEY,
> INTEREST LOST OVER THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS, AND THE AMOUNT WE SPEND ON
> LONG DISTANCE PHONE CALLS AND POSTAGE. WE CANNOT SUE FOR ANYTHING
> ELSE, INCLUDING THE OUTRAGEOUS COST OF THE ATTORNEYS.
> 
> Now, does anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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