Fun factoid... NYC has $89,000 in lost cash that was turned in and not yet claimed:
"The most "profitable" month last year was June, when New Yorkers turned in more than $15,000 in lost cash to the LPU (only $1,807 was claimed that month).
For all of 2010, the MTA raked in a total of $106,974. But only 16 percent of that ($17,509) was ever claimed, which means the rest of it (a cool $89,465) is still just sitting in an MTA bank account."
The law says the opposite. This is "mislaid property" and he's legally required to turn it in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_pr...
Fun factoid... NYC has $89,000 in lost cash that was turned in and not yet claimed:
"The most "profitable" month last year was June, when New Yorkers turned in more than $15,000 in lost cash to the LPU (only $1,807 was claimed that month).
For all of 2010, the MTA raked in a total of $106,974. But only 16 percent of that ($17,509) was ever claimed, which means the rest of it (a cool $89,465) is still just sitting in an MTA bank account."
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/the_mta_h...