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Storybook ending.(digger finds and returns the lost money of a bank)(Brief Article)
In July 2002, when the merger of two banks in the South was underway, more than $46,000 turned up missing at a Columbus, Georgia, branch of one of the institutions.
Bank officials reported the loss to the FBI, and the money was written off on the bank's books as a loss of unknown origin. There was speculation that a bank employee may have inadvertently "deposited" it in a dumpster.
On July 23 of this year, a nearly identical quantity of cash was unearthed by a backhoe operator digging through refuse at the Pine Grove Landfill in Columbus. Instead of keeping the money, the operator, Myron Lakoduk, immediately reported the find to his division chief. When bank officials learned about it from a newspaper story, they alerted ...
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