On Stealing Money From People

Posted on December 29th, 2007

Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a story about a woman who had lost her life’s savings because of an old cashier’s check that JP Morgan Chase wouldn’t honor.

The story goes like this: Willie Floyd is 82 years old. She had a cashier’s check for $19,700 that was in a safe deposit box. The money came from cashing out a savings account at Marine Bank in Waukesha in April 1985. The bank changed from Marine Bank, to Bank One, and now to Chase.

After receiving correspondence from the bank in spring 2006, Willie decided to get the cashier’s check out of the safe deposit box and cash it. Bank employees told her it wasn’t any good anymore.

Willie hired an attorney, Tarena Washington Franklin, to help her get her money. Bank officials indicated that a check uncashed for five years is abandoned under Wisconsin law, but that’s where the paper trail ends.

So Tarena is going to court to try to get her client’s money from her.

Here’s something to ponder… If Tarena is so interested in helping people get the money that’s rightfully theirs, maybe she can help me out. Maybe Tarena can speak to her mother, former attorney, convicted felon, and tax cheat (both state and federal) Hazel J. Washington, and ask Hazel to pay me the $8,000 she skipped out on for services I rendered related to her criminal defense on tax evasion charges.

Fair is fair, isn’t it?

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Comments (7)

  • Somone who knows
    30 December 2007 at 2:23 pm |

    Hi
    I agree Tracy. Also, the bank had notified her several times, the article said that they had changed names. At what point did the Widow Floyd ( such a catch name ) not walk into the bank and notice the name had changed?

    And, why should the bank pay interest on a cashiers check? Second, from someone who knows, the Widow Floyd, was notified nearly five years ago that a relative had seen her name in the unclaimed property section of the Milwaukee Journal and she should see what the unclaimed property is.

    So, is anyone not looking past the doe eyes, the age etc.? Come on. You get notice from a bank..its not your bank you say. You walk into the bank monthly…and its your bank..with the name that matches your correspondence. And you want interest on a cashiers check…but you are asking the bank and the state to be fair…DAH!

  • Tracy Coenen
    30 December 2007 at 2:29 pm |

    Awww… and here I thought “Someone who knows” was going to add to my info on what a thief Hazel Washington is!

  • someone who knows
    30 December 2007 at 2:41 pm |

    Hi
    I can only respond…to what I know for certain. Although, I believe your case…your credibility and the fact that I know you…I believe you.

    I can’t post my name…as I know the Widow Floyd…and that she tends to use the “Whoa is me, I am poor, black and a widow,” in her quest to launch law suits to win money.

    If she deserves anything…its the 19,000 and thats it…no more…and maybe less once Tarena gets her money (smile)

  • Tracy Coenen
    30 December 2007 at 2:44 pm |

    Oooohhh… the plot thickens, because I have no idea who you are! :)

    Yes, Tarena will take her big 1/3 plus costs off the top, and anyone who ever worked with Hazel or Tarena knows that their “costs” may or may not be true.

    She may be entitled to her $19,000, but something tells me that it’s floating around in the state’s coffers, not the bank’s.

  • Tracy Coenen
    30 December 2007 at 2:47 pm |

    Lightbulb moment… if the email address you used is accurate and it’s your last name and part of the first name that people know you as… :)

    *waving*

  • someone who knows
    30 December 2007 at 3:46 pm |

    Waive :-)

  • tammy
    15 December 2009 at 4:54 am |

    yes i know all about bank of america stealing peoples money for this or for that forgetting to put stop paymemnts in on time even after you youself has contacted the merchant denieing them the money and the bank pays it anyways..they have got me for thousands of dollars for this fee for that fee tjhen some i am just not sure wqhere it all went..

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