Man Finds $127,000 in Mature Bonds in Desk He Bought at Auction for $40.00 Returns to Owner!!!

Wow, is it the season or are there just a lot of honest people out there? Phil LeClerc, a regular who buys stuff at auction in Weymouth Mass, purchased a Governor Winthrop secretary desk. A knob falls off and when he goes looking in the desk for the knob he discovers $127,000.00 in matured US Savings Bonds. The bonds were in $100.00, $1,000.00 and $10,000.00 denominations. Turns out they belonged to the previous owner of the desk who is now 95 yrs old and living in an assisted living home that his family was struggling to pay for. As a matter of fact, the son of the unnamed man, had hired the Auction house to pack up and sell all of his belongings from his house to help raise money to pay for the assisted care. Well obviously, these people were not good at cleaning out the desk. According to the son, the 95  yr old father had lost the bonds years ago and had just given up on ever finding them.Aww I'm glad this guy returned the bonds, because clearly this family needed them but he didn't really have to. He bought the desk and its contents fair and square. The father, the family and the Auction House all had a chance to go through the desk and clean it out. That's 3 chances they had to find the bonds. Sigh, oh well. Alls well that ends well. hahahaha No word on if the family even gave the guy a little something something for returning the bonds. I think he is owed at least $12,700.00, which is 10%.