Who’s Watching the… CASH?
The seminal Wu Tang Clan song from the mid-90s, “C.R.E.A.M.,” has its eponymous title taken from the lyrics, “Cash Rules Everything Around Me.”
Many are praying for a bridge across troubled financial waters these days, and many are asking their deities for a little extra cash. Cash trees, cash cows, golden ganders, lottery tickets, horse races, change drawers, and surreptitious swindles are all-the-rage in this post-Madoff madness.
Which brings us to the case of one Jason Holt, upper-Manhattan resident, school teacher, and genuine do-gooder. He almost got got for having been the unsuspecting tenant of “Apartment D,” in an otherwise ordinary building, where a Dominican-born, police-protected drug-dealer has supposedly stashed $900,000 in cash.
The NY Times‘ Al Baker writes:
It was not a movie, not a plot from “Law & Order,” but a reality that hit Mr. Holt like lightning on Thursday when he read the news that a New York City police officer — allegedly in partnership with a drug dealer who used to live in the apartment — had been arrested on charges of scheming to trick his way into Apartment 4D, have Mr. Holt jolted with a stun gun and handcuff him. The drug dealer, officials say, had led people to believe that he had used the apartment, which is on Broadway in Inwood, as a stash house for $900,000 cash.
The rest of the NY Times‘ article can be found by clicking this link.
Now, it seems that floorboard in my hallway has been creaking louder than the others, and I’ve been meaning to check it… just in case.
