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In May in Toronto the Toronto-Dominion Bank went to court to recover the $3.5 million that Edward Del Grande had borrowed for his businesses. Del Grande countersued for $30 million, saying the problem was that the bank had loaned him too much money. Del Grande charged that if the bank had been more prudent, his companies could have survived the down market in real estate.
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Recently Robert Lee Brock, an inmate in Chesapeake, Virginia, filed a $5 million lawsuit against Robert Lee Brock–accusing himself of violating his religious beliefs and his civil rights by getting himself drunk enough to engage in various crimes. He wrote, “I want to pay myself $5 million [for this breach of rights] but ask the state to pay it in my behalf since I can’t work and am a ward of the state.” In April the lawsuit was dismissed.
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