The Empty Crate, The Lost Boat, and Fifty-One Betrayed
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The Empty Crate, The Lost Boat, and Fifty-One Betrayed
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Fear that your neighbor's goodwill could be a carefully staged theft: a wooden crate large enough to hold a bass boat washed ashore after weeks, with concrete blocks meant to sink it - and a raffle that collected $57,200 from fifty-one trusting buyers produced no prize. How did a framed certificate, a twelve-dollar stock photo, and a three-sentence postscript unravel a small town's trust?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the August 9, 2019 discovery at Soren Reservoir to the paper trail and bank ledger that exposed the scheme, and ask how a community treasurer could divert funds without immediate detection.
Person: Neil Ramsey
Date: August 9, 2019
Location: Soren Reservoir boat ramp
Event: Raffle for a bass boat collecting $57,200 across 11,440 tickets
Status: $9,280 recovered, remaining funds transferred through PayPal and Harvest Events LLC
- The wooden crate was found thirty feet from shore with two concrete blocks attached to its base.
- The raffle collected $57,200 across 11,440 tickets from fifty-one buyers.
- The winning certificate promised delivery within thirty days; no boat arrived after forty-one days.
- Neil Ramsey had less than $800 across all his accounts on the afternoon of the award photo.
- $9,280 of the $57,200 was eventually recovered after transfers through a PayPal account and Harvest Events LLC.
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