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  • 27
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    2012
    7:44pm, EDT

    Pennsylvania man must pay back $69,000 windfall

    By NBC News staff

    An accidental $69,000 deposit was too good to be true for a Pennsylvania man who received the money in his bank account — by mistake. Now, he has to pay it all back.


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    The suburban Philadelphia man, 22-year-old Joseph Bucci, struck it rich in March after a Wells Fargo bank teller mistyped an account number for a $69,300 deposit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Court records show that within a month of the error, Bucci withdrew all but $2,000 of the mistaken money from his account.


    The money was reported missing by a Wells Fargo investigator in May and Bucci was soon charged, according to the Inquirer. The funds were supposed to go from a law office to an estate account.

    Bucci's lawyer, Michael Parlow, said Friday that his client spent that money on a used car, a camera, a computer, a dog, clothes and furniture, according to the Inquirer. He has now paid back some of the money, the Inqurier reported, but still has about $50,000 left to give back. Bucci must show he can repay all of it in order to qualify for a first-time offenders program — a program that would clear his record if he were to complete it.

    Bucci faces two felony counts of theft of lost property and receiving stolen property, according to the Inquirer.

     

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    Being charged with receiving stolen property would mean the money was stolen before it was deposited into his account. I'm curious if the teller that made the mistake was charged with grand theft and ordered to pay any of it back?

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