An estimated $750,000 in randomly scattered cash that was recovered in the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse will soon be driven in an armored truck to Washington, D.C., and converted into a lump-sum payment — courtesy of the Treasury Department for the benefit of residents who lost the money in the summer tragedy.
That promising news was delivered Wednesday by the receiver for the Champlain Towers South condo association to a Miami-Dade Circuit judge who is overseeing legal matters, including a class-action lawsuit, in the aftermath of the 136-unit building collapse in which nearly 100 people died.
Receiver Michael Goldberg said he was coordinating a plan with the Secret Service to haul the badly damaged currency to the nation’s capital. The Treasury Department has agreed to clean up the cash, count it and then wire the reimbursement check to him, so he can distribute the money to the Champlain condo residents.
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