According to a story in the Miami Herald, after selling a majority stake in his Miami bank, Leonard Abess took $60 million from his own pocket and gave it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, all 399 workers on the payroll. He even tracked down 72 former employees to share it with them too. President Obama talked about Abess in his address to Congress. For longtime employees, the bonus — based on years of service — amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, even topping $100,000.
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