$30,000 Found in Clothes Returned to Relative: 'I Believe in Karma,' Finder Says
A woman in Bristol, Penn. was shocked to find $30,000 hidden among a bag of clothes that she received from a cousin. Carol Sutor decided to do the right thing and return the money to the family it originally came from.
"I had to give it back. I believe in karma, whatever I do will come back to me, good or bad," she told the phillyBurbs.com.
"My cousin lives in Medford. She has a daughter; the daughter's mother-in-law died, so the mother-in-law had all these really good clothes. My cousin calls and asks if I want the clothes for my mother. So I says sure, drop 'em off," Sutor explained. "So I go through the clothes and I come across a canvas bag on a hanger. In the bag was a plastic bag."
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After going through several layers of plastic bags, Sutor finally found what she originally thought was "play money." There was a grand total of $30,000 inside several bank envelopes containing $100 bills. While Sutor could have kept the money she knew immediately she had to return it.
"Things are tight. You struggle in your business, like everybody's struggling. But when you struggle you think, oh, wow if only I had money, my troubles would be solved. And so all this money shows up, but it's the wrong way for it to come. It wasn't mine and I knew it," Sutor said.
After making some phone calls to her cousin, and counting, then re-counting the money, the cousin came and picked up the money and took it to her son-in-law. He was equally surprised by the amount of money, which no one seemed to know about.
"Ten minutes later my cousin comes back and hands me $1,000 of the money. Her son-in-law said thank you for returning his mother's money," Sutor said.
"I'm not surprised Carol was so honest," her cousin Marlene Lattanzi said. "We have a great family and all of us cousins grew up together."
