Steve Irwin (crocodile hunter) dies..........

[lucas]

It is hey? It's such a shame too and I think Steve would be terribly upset about all this.

Funny thing is though, it was always kind of expected that Terri would up stakes and move back to the US and now it seems it may be going to happen afterall.

I can't believe it!! This is just really something.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

It is hey? It's such a shame too and I think Steve would be terribly upset about all this.

Funny thing is though, it was always kind of expected that Terri would up stakes and move back to the US and now it seems it may be going to happen afterall.

Really? Is that what alot of Australians are thinking will happen? I always like the hear the insider's view. I'm actually surprised because I remember her saying that she would stay shortly after Steve died.
Wow, if all of this is true, then I don't blame Bob for quitting. He must be shaking his head over all of this.
I always thought it was nice the way the Australia zoo remained a family owned business. I think it's cute the way they celebrate Bindi and Bob's birthdays at the park.
They seem to live for attention. I can't see them heading off to the US and not being involved in something that will bring them attention.

 

[va32h]

But according to that article, a wildlife-based theme park was something that Steve himself discussed doing in 2003. So it would seem that his widow is doing what he would have wanted.

 

[sha_lyn]

But according to that article, a wildlife-based theme park was something that Steve himself discussed doing in 2003. So it would seem that his widow is doing what he would have wanted.

Exactly...also according to the article, Animal Planet/Discovery Channel had already entered into a business agreement with Steve and the zoo in the building of the Crocoseum.

 

[lucas]

But according to that article, a wildlife-based theme park was something that Steve himself discussed doing in 2003. So it would seem that his widow is doing what he would have wanted.

I was thinking that, too. But Terri will get all the blame.

I can't believe she would return to the US and take the kids away from the zoo and everyone there.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Yeah, but do you really think Steve's intention was to sell the zoo?

 

[BratTink]

I don't think Terri would move back to the US and sell the zoo. I think she's a smarter business woman than that and realizes that SHE is not the celebrity, its Steve an now Bindi. What would Bindi do in America if she doesn't have the backing of a zoo and Wildlife Warriors behind her? She's really not that talented, sorry but its true. She's cute but I think the only she could do without a zoo is become a celebutant.
If this is true I don't think Steve would be pleased at all.

 

[sha_lyn]

Yeah, but do you really think Steve's intention was to sell the zoo?

The selling (and the theme park) are just rumors at this point. It's possible she sold only a portion of the zoo, and entered into a partnership. Animal Planet/Discovery channel Inc had a long standing working relationship. Setting up a partnership to launch a theme park seems like the logical next step, considering the long time relationship with DCI and the current tax problem.

It will be interesting to find out if the tax problem originated from something prior to Steve's death. If my memory is correct, his father was in charge of the financial side. I always assumed that continued after Steve's death.
My gut feeling is that Bob left because he is involved with the problem.

 

[Nutsy]

Yeah, but do you really think Steve's intention was to sell the zoo?

Nope, I doubt it very much. That Zoo was his baby, he was so passionate about it. So I very much doubt "selling" was something he'd even consider.

 

[Nutsy]

In October 2003, Steve Irwin discussed plans to build a "Crocodile Hunter Park" with rides and interactive exhibits in Brisbane.


The idea of this was that Steve had hoped to build another park here in Brisbane, but the idea was knocked on the head. Something to do with the land and the location of where he was thinking of putting it if I remember correctly.

I remember being up at the Zoo all those years ago, when it was talked about and asking a staff member about it and she was telling us where Steve had hoped to build it and the location, even though it may have been good for tourists, would have been an absolute nightmare for the locals with the traffic congestion as the location was on the road to the airport and that is now a DFO...(Direct Factory Outlet) and the traffic congestions that has caused is out of this world.

Steve's planned included a hotel, and as you can gather by the location it would have been a big money spinner, but the whole idea was squashed anyway.

FYI... Australia Zoo is located one hour north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast.

 

[Nutsy]

How the crocodile hunter's family was ripped apart

When Steve Irwin died, his relatives vowed to continue his work. But his father's decision to quit Australia Zoo has laid bare a bitter feud with the Crocodile Hunter's widow.

In the wake of Steve Irwin's sudden and grisly death on the Great Barrier Reef, his family stood united. But 18 months after the "Crocodile Hunter " was killed by a stingray's barb, a bitter feud between his widow and his father has been exposed.


Steve's father, Bob, founded the family zoo on the Queensland Sunshine Coast 36 years ago, and imbued his son with his love of wildlife. Steve and his American-born wife, Terri, named their second child Robert after Bob. After the khaki-clad television naturalist died, his family pledged to continue his work and honour his legacy.

Now the image of family harmony has been shattered, with Bob Irwin, now 68, resigning from Australia Zoo and putting out a statement pledging to "continue Steve's dream" by other means. That statement was supposed to be issued by the zoo, but was replaced with an anodyne press release noting that Mr Irwin "is a gentleman of retirement age". A furious Mr Irwin then issued it himself.


Rumours of a rift had swirled around the zoo for weeks, with employees and volunteers claiming Mr Irwin was unhappy with his daughter-in-law's treatment of staff, her management of Steve's Wildlife Warriors charity, and unspecified animal welfare issues.


He reportedly also believed she was over-commercialising the internationally renowned and hugely profitable Australia Zoo, to the detriment of conservation. Mr Irwin, a former plumber with a passion for reptiles, was even said to have been banned from the premises after a row with Terri, and to be facing a battle to remain in the home he occupied on a wildlife reserve.

There were claims of an exodus of staff disgruntled with the way Mr Irwin was being treated. One employee said: "There are people at the zoo who think that Steve's commitment to animal research and conservation isn't being maintained."


The rumours met with official dismissals, and it seems the family and zoo management were hoping Mr Irwin would go quietly. But in his statement, Steve's father made clear the bitterness that lay behind his "difficult decision" to quit the place to which he had devoted most of his adult life.

Mr Irwin said he planned to complete a koala research project begun by Steve, after which he and his wife, Judy, would move to a newly purchased Queensland property. He added: "Steve's ultimate passion, even from a young boy, was always for the conservation of Australian wildlife and its habitat. When Judy and I move to our new property we intend to carry on with wildlife rehabilitation and conservation projects and therefore continue Steve's and my dream."


He thanked the staff of Australia Zoo, Wildlife Warriors and an animal hospital in the grounds of the zoo. But he made no reference to Terri, or her contribution to the family business, or her role in raising his two grandchildren, Bob and his elder sister, Bindi. Terri, who has been a fixture at the zoo since she met Steve there during a holiday in Queensland in 1991, kept a low profile while her irrepressively ebullient husband was alive. Since he died, though, she has rarely been out of the limelight, and neither have her two children, especially Bindi, who is nine.


Australians have been torn between admiration for the family's survival skills and discomfort at the way they appear to have bypassed the grieving stage. Criticism has focused particularly on Bindi who, despite her tender age, has embarked on an international showbusiness career that appears designed to propel her into her father's shoes.


Terri Irwin insists that her daughter's impressive curriculum vitae – her own wildlife series on the Discovery Channel, called Bindi The Jungle Girl, her kiddy fitness tape, her clothing range, her Bindi action doll – are all her own doing. Bindi is just a natural performer, she says. And Bindi, a pint-sized blonde replica of her mother, smilingly agrees.


What Bindi's grandfather makes of all this he does not say. When Steve was six, his parents gave him a 12ft scrub python for his birthday. When he was eight, Bob Irwin moved his family from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast and with his first wife, Lyn, opened a small zoo, the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. Within a year, Steve was catching crocodiles, and in 1991, when his parents retired, he took over the venture.


Steve and Terri developed it into the Australia Zoo, a wildlife theme park and major tourist attraction, with 550 staff, more than 1,000 animals on 60 acres of bushland, and more than a million visitors a year. As well as animal enclosures, it had the "Crocoseum", an amphitheatre where performers such as the all-singing, all-dancing "Crocmen" regaled audiences of up to 5,000.


Despite the success of the zoo and Steve's stature as a television celebrity, particularly in the US, the Irwin family did not attract a great deal of attention at home. Apart from, that is, incidents such as the one where Steve dangled Bob, then a one-month-old baby, above a large, snapping crocodile while feeding it in its pen.


All that changed after Steve's death. Terri Irwin, sometimes known as the Crocodile Huntress, took over the zoo, with the help of Steve's close friend and colleague, John Stainton. Mr Stainton was on Steve's boat, Croc One, when his friend, who was filming a television series, Ocean's Deadliest, swam too close to a stingray. Mr Stainton saw the ray shoot its poisonous barb into Steve's heart.


Australians mourned Steve and felt compassion for his photogenic widow and their two photogenic children. Within days, Bindi, then eight, was delivering a eulogy to her father in front of thousands of mourners at the Crocoseum, and startling them with her composure and articulacy.


Less than three weeks later, Terri gave her first interview to Barbara Walters in the US, quickly followed by an interview on Australian national television. The latter, conducted by Ray Martin, a veteran television personality, attracted nearly three million viewers. Terri broke down frequently as she told Mr Martin that she still expected Steve to walk in through the door, and recalled breaking the news of his death to Bob and Bindi.


In the 18 months since, it seems the Irwin family have rarely been out of the headlines. There was Terri's book, My Steve, detailing her life with the Crocodile Hunter and revealing that he was "hot in the cot". Terri says Harry Potter-style crowds awaited her at American bookshops when she arrived for signings.


There was Steve Irwin Day, a celebration of the man's life, inaugurated last November and expected to become an annual fixture. For last year's event, a beach was trucked into the zoo, and performers included Olivia Newton-John. Then there was the University of Queensland's awarding of a posthumous professorship to Steve, which Terri gratefully accepted late last year.


Notably, whenever a product was launched, there was always a story to attract media attention. Last month, as Terri, accompanied by young Bob, unveiled her new line of toys at FAO Schwartz, the New York store, she said Bob, now four, had just had his first snake bite, from a boa constrictor. "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit," she said.


Last year, while announcing that Bindi's television series would be screening in Australia, Terri told the media she was on a mission to save Australian slang, including Steve's catch-phrase, "Crikey!" But the press surrounding the family was not always good. As well as criticism of the perceived exploitation of Bindi, there were persistent rumours of an affair between Terri and Mr Stainton, which he has vehemently denied.


There were also murmurs about an apparent escalation in activities at the zoo that appeared to have little to do with conservation. In January, for instance, an American psychic, John Edward, put in an appearance – and, during a private session with Terri, reportedly put her in touch with her late husband.


A source told the Sunshine Coast Daily: "Bob [Irwin] is angry that the zoo is being turned into a circus and the focus on animal conservation and education is being lost. Staff were horrified about the way Bob was being treated after he had put his heart and soul into the place."


Terri has a £47m plan for the expansion of Australia Zoo, to include an African-style wildlife safari park, complete with eco-lodges, and a hotel with restaurants and conference facilities.


After Steve's death, Australia Zoo remained a family business. Terri was the director, and the manager was Frank Muscillo, who is married to one of Steve's sisters, Joy. Steve's father managed a wildlife sanctuary, Ironbark Station, west of Brisbane, and was also employed at the zoo.

Last weekend, the zoo management issued a "damage control" statement. "We fully support [Bob] and love him dearly. He has been through so much grief with the loss of his first wife Lyn and only son. These rumours [of a rift] need to end in respect of the Irwin family."


Now Bob has gone, but the rumours surrounding the zoo, and Terri's management style – of the zoo, and of her children – seem certain to escalate.

 

[Nutsy]

Here is something to read about Steve's plans for a Croc Park here in Brisbane.


Irwin says he knows that he’s now a big target for the critics who might not like his over-the-top Ocker style and his plans for expansion, but he says he has learnt to take the good with the bad.

But he is a little peeved at the recent row over his proposal to base a helicopter at the zoo, which would be used for scenic flights in the Glass House Mountains region, as well as for medical emergencies.

He says helicopters were based at a host of other tourist attractions and centers around Australia and it would be detrimental to the entire Australia Zoo if it could not get is chopper services off the ground.

Irwin says his proposal to build a Crocodile Hunter theme park in Brisbane also had hit a snag with the election of Campbell Newman as lord mayor earlier this year.

While former lord mayor Jim Soorley had been supportive of the plan, Irwin says Newman does not seem keen.

“There’s a negativity towards Australia Zoo (from Newman), so the proposal is harder how to get off the ground,” he says.

But right now Irwin is bubbling at the prospect of introducing four new cheetah cubs to his Beerwah menagerie.

Flown in from African after quarantine they will join the Sumatran and Bengal tigers which are now a big drawcard in the zoo’s expanding big cat section.

Themed exhibits featuring animals from around the world will be part of the new $40 million expansion. “ Disneyland had better look out,” he says. “We’re coming hard and fast.”

 

[Nutsy]

Profits bonus a mystery to workers at Australia Zoo

EMPLOYEES of Australia Zoo are in the dark about a 2005 offshore tax scheme that promised them 90 per cent of the zoo's profits.
"I've never heard of that. Are you sure we are talking about Australia Zoo?" asked one long-time worker.

Documents seen by The Courier-Mail show Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin and his wife Terri had established the Netherlands-based Atlas Trustees Ltd Employee Entitlement Fund in June, 2005 in order to motivate workers so they could be retained.

However employees of the zoo say they have not received any money from the fund, and did not even know it existed.

"I can't remember HR giving me anything about it," another worker said.
Zoo officials have denied they avoided paying taxes with offshore financial transactions that have landed them in a civil court in Melbourne.

Debt collection company Alyssa Treasury Services is suing the zoo and Mrs Irwin for more than $2.5 million in unpaid charges as part of a tax minimisation scheme that went sour.

Zoo general manager Frank Muscillo, in a written statement, said the zoo had been the "victim of a highly sophisticated case of deception" but had not evaded taxes.

 

[Nutsy]

Help for Bob Irwin as he retires from Australia Zoo

AUSTRALIA Zoo has taken an active role in moving Irwin patriarch Bob Irwin and his wife Judy to his new property near Kingaroy, where they will continue his son's conservation projects.
In a carefully worded statement released personally to The Courier-Mail at the weekend, the father of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin makes no reference to an alleged rift with his daughter-in-law Terri Irwin.

Instead, he thanks "Australia Zoo for their valuable assistance in acquiring our new property in southeast Queensland".

"Australia Zoo has kindly offered to assist us in the relocation (to our new property) of animals needing special care," Mr Irwin adds.

Mr Irwin, who is Queenland's Grandfather of the Year, wrote the 300-word statement last Wednesday night and expected the zoo to release it on Thursday in response to mounting speculation over a serious family feud.
The row had allegedly erupted over the direction of the zoo, especially its growing focus on commercialisation and granddaughter Bindi's career. Reports claimed Mr Irwin, 68, had been banned from the Beerwah zoo he founded in the early 1970s with his first wife Lyn.

Instead of releasing Mr Irwin's statement, the zoo sent out its own release, saying: "Bob is a gentleman of retirement age and we fully support and love him dearly. He has been through so much grief with the loss of his first wife Lyn and only son. These rumours need to end in respect to (sic) the Irwin family."

Mr Irwin said on Friday the words were not his and he was awaiting approval from the zoo to release his statement, however the management had not returned his calls.

Mrs Irwin and zoo management have maintained a stony silence over the alleged rift.

Mr Irwin sent his statement to The Courier-Mail when the zoo failed to release it by Saturday afternoon.

Judy Irwin said her husband did not want to add or say anything more at this stage.

Mr Irwin confirmed he had left the zoo and his role as manager of Ironbark Station at Blackbutt, where he lives.

He said the decision to move – to a new 240ha property surrounded by national park and forestry between Kingaroy and Murgon – would enable him to continue his son's conservation work.

Mr Irwin said his son's "ultimate passion" was the conservation of Australian wildlife and its habitat.

"When Judy and I move to our new property we intend to carry on with wildlife rehabilitation and conservation projects and therefore continue Steve's and my dream," he said

 

[Nutsy]

Bob Irwin 'never banned from zoo'


One of Australia Zoo's bosses has today flatly denied suggestions Bob Irwin was ever banned from the Beerwah tourist attraction, saying he loved him like a father.

Australia Zoo director Wes Mannion also denied suggestions of a rift between Mr Irwin and his daughter-in-law Terri Irwin, despite Mr Irwin releasing a statement on the weekend in which he severed ties with the Zoo.

Australia Zoo opened its doors to the world's media again today, unveiling three 12-week-old tiger cubs from Indonesia in a bid to demonstrate its ongoing commitment to conservation.

Mr Mannion said the Zoo's conservation direction had not changed since the death of the Crocodile Hunter and the organisation remained open and accountable.

He denied Steve Irwin's dad had been barred from the tourist facility he established, saying Mr Irwin Senior had only been at the Zoo three or four days ago.

"He’s not locked out. No! You can take any story and skew it, I think a month ago I was dating Terri – well I’m happily married with a little boy. So, you can skew a story any way you like. Bob is welcome anytime in the zoo, that’s never been a point of contention.

"It’s not a rift. Bob has decided to go his different way. We never talk about family, for starters, Bob’s a great guy. The zoo is heading in a direction that it’s always headed in and everyone’s aware of that.

"The most important thing is that we’re all in this for the same reason, we’re all into conservation,'' Mr Mannion said.

"Bob’s been a fantastic guy, he always will be. He’s moved on to a new job which is another conservation property which the zoo has funded, so really it’s exciting, I think it’s great for him to have a change.

"As far as the politics involved and whatever else that people may or may not say, I never talk personally about family, but I will say that Bob would do great whatever he does and the great thing is that it’s another conservation property that will be focused on, it’s a property the zoo has helped him get so I think it’s a win-win for everybody.

"It’s Bob’s property and Bob will do what he’s always done. He’s worked on the conservation property for the zoo for the last 7 or 8 years so I think it’s great.''

Mr Mannion stressed the direction of the Zoo remained the same, as did the management team, apart from Steve Irwin.

"It’s been a team effort and it’s not only the management team that we have – the team at zoo – a lot of team members have been here for 10, 12 years plus.

"The wonderful thing for me is the zoo itself has not changed. The people who make the difference and have forged this zoo since 1992 are still here.

"Bob is too. Bob has been out at Blackbutt for the last eight years and before that he was at Rosedale since 1992. As far as the workings of the zoo and where the zoo is heading he’s never had a real interest in it but what he does have a huge interest in is conservation and he’s just moved on to another conservation project.

"I don’t feel like he’s moved on at all.''

Mr Mannion rejected suggestions there were morale problems or ongoing issues with staff, saying there would always be some people unhappy in an organisation as large as Australia Zoo.

Mr Mannion pointed out that none of the people criticising the Zoo, whether existing or former staff, were willing to put their name to their statements.

All those who have contacted the Daily to say Bob Irwin had been banned from the zoo said they could not give their names because either they or their partners would face retribution at the zoo.

"The key matter is that at the end of the day, we’ve been here for 30 years and we’re going to be here for another 40 years,'' Mr Mannion said.

"When people say to me ‘oh gee, where’s the zoo going’, well in another 20 years come in and say ‘hello and I’ll let you know where it’s going because we’re here the long haul, we’re a local business, I did grades 9,10,11 and 12 on the Sunshine Coast.

"I’ve been here since I was 14. The thing that is pretty awesome about what Steve and Terri have achieved is that Steve could have grabbed the money and run.

"Steve could have taken the money that he made from documentary film-making and put his feet up in the Bahamas but he didn’t.

"He put it into the local community, he created 550 jobs, Terri has been working tirelessly for the last few years, well since Stevie died, going around and spruiking the Sunshine Coast.

"We’re a local business. We love our locals and we’ll always be local and Terri is as local as anyone.

"She’s been here for so long and she in hand with Stevie built this place, along with everyone else, but her and Steve had the biggest hand in making the zoo the success it is and they could have cut and run.

"They could have taken everything they had and went away and moved to America. Her passion and our passion is the Sunshine Coast, is Queensland and conservation of wildlife and that will never change no matter what people say.''

When asked about a North Queensland property being in Terri Irwin's private company name, Mr Mannion maintained it was owned by the zoo, but then admitted it was a private family company, Silverback Properties Pty Ltd, as reported by the Daily.

The Daily revealed on Saturday how Terri Irwin had built a $26 million property empire – all held solely in her own name – while Australia Zoo rakes in millions from grants and donations.

This includes a $6 million property paid for by the former federal government last year, which is now held by Mrs Irwin’s private company.

Silverback Properties Pty Ltd, has outlaid more than $20 million for real estate around Australia Zoo, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, at St George, Emu Creek and in Far North Queensland.

 

[Nutsy]

Steve Irwin talked father out of suicide


Monday Apr 7 20:06 AEST

The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin prevented his father Bob from committing suicide after the death of his first wife.

In an interview aired on ABC TV's Australian Story, Bob Irwin told of his grief after his wife Lynn's car accident in February 2000.

Mr Irwin, 68, said he could not see a future without her and loaded up his truck and headed to a "special spot" that he, Lynn and Steve visited on many occasions.

But he had failed to take the mobile phone out of his truck and Steve called him.

"He said, `I know what you're going to do', and I didn't really have an answer for that and then he said, `Well, wait there I'll come with you because we both might as well go'," Mr Irwin said.

"And I said, `You can't do that' because he had Bindi at that stage and he said, `Well, if you're going to do it, then I'm coming'."

"I just felt at the time I just couldn't let him do it and he knew that.
"We were so close that we both knew what the other person was thinking a lot of the time and I just couldn't let him do it.

"So I had to come back in, that's probably one of the hardest things I've ever done."

Mr Irwin said his second wife Judy had helped him get over the death of Lynn.

The couple have bought a property near the south-east Queensland town of Kingaroy where they are continuing their conservation efforts. They had given total control of Australia Zoo over to son Steve and his wife Terri following Lynn's death.

Last month, Mr Irwin ended his role with Australia Zoo, which he founded 36 years ago and which Steve made into an international drawcard before his death on September 4, 2006.

There has been some media speculation he was upset with the career of Steve Irwin's nine-year-old daughter Bindi, and also the direction of the Sunshine Coast-based zoo.

Steve's widow Terri plans to turn it into an international tourist mecca comparable to Disneyland.

Mr Irwin said he did not agree with certain aspects of the management of Australia Zoo after Steve's passing and so had decided to leave.
"I just felt that it was better for everybody concerned if I left Australia Zoo and Judy and I and all our friends were able to continue Steve's work the way I believe it should be done," he said.

But he did not elaborate on a possible rift with Terri.

"I don't see why my family life and my personal issues should be aired publicly and ... um, there would be no way that I will discuss those with the media."

Terri Irwin also denied there was a rift between her and Mr Irwin.

"There is a tendency for rumour mills to spin and I just can assure everyone that I love Bob dearly and that our ongoing support with Bob will be in perpetuity, that as long as Bob is around whatever he's wanting to achieve will continue.

"I know he's continuing with wildlife rehabilitation on a smaller property and out of respect to a gentleman whom I've known 16 years and who is a man of retirement age whose gone through so much losing his wife and his only son that I will respectfully just leave it at that because Bob is a pretty private person."

 

[Nutsy]

So much sadness in this poor mans face and voice... such a terrible shame.

 

[Nutsy]

Leaving Aust Zoo was best outcome: Bob Irwin

Bob Irwin Sr says he is determined to carry on the legacy of his son, Steve Irwin, despite parting ways with Australia Zoo.

The Crocodile Hunter's wife, Terri Irwin, has repeatedly denied reports of a rift with her father-in-law and speculation that the Sunshine Coast tourist attraction could be sold.

Terri Irwin has taken control of the zoo's operations after the sudden death of Steve in 2006.

Mr Irwin says he wants to keep working with wildlife on a new property in Queensland's South Burnett, but he told ABC1's Australian Story that unlike his son, he would prefer to keep a low profile.

"I still have the passion and the drive that he and I both had," he said.

"I don't have the talent with the media that Steve had. To be perfectly honest with you, the media frighten me. I would much rather catch crocodiles than sit here talking to a camera."

Mr Irwin said that he was becoming a disruptive influence at the tourist attraction. He and his wife have moved away from the zoo, a move he says is the best outcome for everyone.

"I still firmly believe that even though it's better for me and for Judy to start our new move on the property, it's also better for Australia Zoo not to have a disruptive influence," he said.

He says he does not think Steve Irwin would have been disappointed with his decision.

"I think he'd be more than content, as long as he knows that I'm continuing with the work that he'd want me to continue with. I don't think he'd care really where I did it," he said.

 

[Nutsy]

Something else Bob said was that he does not own a home or a car... all his money is in the Zoo.

Also, he and the Zoo directors agreed on a redundancy/retirement. To this day Bob has not seen a cent of it.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Honestly, this whole story is heartbreaking. Thanks for keeping us up to date.