Fairway bag full of money

[Joseph Tracy]

Glad you mention this because I think most writers would play it up more and he has Maxine seem pretty laid back, only a few mentions. Any thoughts on that? I never had much sense of how much it could be. To pull out before Madoff went down would have been a lot of return on investment. 

> On Feb 11, 2022, at 7:49 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hard to tell from the text. I think it’s at least $100k.
> 
> “ Fairway bag which appears to be stuffed with money.”
> 
> Marshaling my reasons -
> 
> Igor is bigshot - had ZIL shipped over in parts & reassembled - wouldn’t
> half ass this
> She may have saved him and his friends 10 or 100 times that much
> Also this would have bolstered his prestige - priceless
> Also - he may be feeling his way toward a long term
> relationship with Maxine like he already has with March and Sid, and how
> better to start than with an impressive payday?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 4:04 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is great research, Michael. but
>> 
>> I may be projecting but I never thought it was close to that. I imagined
>> some hundreds never organized tightly,
>> stuffed in to look like a lot but really mostly air......
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:59 PM Michael Bailey <
>> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How much in a grocery bag full of hundreds?
>>> To save math & measuring I found this on what appears to be some kind of a
>>> gaming site:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://bullypulpitgames.com/downloads/half-a-million-dollars-in-a-grocery-bag/
>>> 
>>> “A stack of one hundred greasy street-worn bills, American, takes up 6.89
>>> cubic inches, or 112 milliliters. A paper bag, like the one you get your
>>> groceries packed in or like the one you are looking at right now, holds
>>> 1,428 cubic inches, or just north of 23 liters. That’s 207.25 stacks of
>>> cash if you filled it with mathematical perfection, “
>>> 
>>> Igor wouldn’t bother with anything but 100s
>>> 10000 x 200 = 2 million ?
>>> 
>>> But it probably is more like half full.
>>> 
>>> Still, a nice surprise for a working mother.
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