The awful untimeliness of his death is revealed by the fact that in May 2010, Norway signed a Letter of Intent with Indonesia, offering a billion dollars, cash on delivery, for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions from avoided deforestation.
Prosecutors say he wrote several rambling emails, including one that said: "I want a telecommute job from home of life at 150K, or a two million dollar cash settlement.
As an incentive to increase the number of submissions, the contest offered the winner a one hundred dollar cash prize.
Eight million dollars, cash.
Old Bush had paid ten dollars, cash.
Three weeks later, Tabone accepted twenty-five thousand dollars, cash.
First prize is two hundred dollars cash and a future ambassadorship.
The buy-in at the Bellagio was fifteen thousand dollars, cash only.
"Thirty-five dollars cash or $50 in store credit," she'd say.
"He comes in, and he loses a hundred and fifty thousand dollars cash in half an hour," one opponent told me.
If you bought a Chevy Tahoe this summer, G.M. would give you zero-per-cent financing, or six thousand dollars cash back.
