10-10-2005, 10:58 PM
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Mine is an evil laugh
Location: Sydney, Australia
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It seems that putting it under your desk at work is not the thing to do, apparently
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A man who kept more than $250,000 he said he found in a Sydney laneway, has escaped jail after pleading guilty to a criminal charge over the cash haul.
Sean Clifford was arrested in May after police received a tip-off from one of his colleagues at Macquarie Bank.
The colleague had found $110,000 in $100 and $50 notes under Clifford's desk at work.
Clifford, 23, later told police he had found more than $250,000 in a bag at the side of an inner-city street several days earlier, stashing more than $150,000 in a safety deposit box.
Clifford, who lives in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, said he didn't know what to do with the money when he found it, but pleaded guilty in Downing Central Local Court to stealing by finding after failing to hand in the cash.
Sentencing Clifford today, Magistrate Christopher Longley said "there needs to be a general deterrence for people who locate property which is not theirs.
"Persons who locate this amount of money in a bag should really have presented it to the appropriate authorities, because [a] person does not leave a quarter of a million dollars in the street," he said.
Clifford, who lost his Macquarie Bank job, was this afternoon sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond.
The cash, which Magistrate Longley said may have been dumped by a criminal, has never been claimed.
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I wonder if this guy will get to keep the money seeing as nobody has claimed it?
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