Filipino Cabbie In Vegas Finds And Returns $300,000

[MikeB]

This story is not just Philippines' news but I pulled it from a local paper - http://globalnation.inquirer.net/95289/filipino-cabbie-in-vegas-finds-and-returns-300k

[OnMyWay]

This story is not just Philippines' news but I pulled it from a local paper - http://globalnation.inquirer.net/95289/filipino-cabbie-in-vegas-finds-and-returns-300k

 

I saw that story somewhere and it was not mentioned that he is Filipino.  Good for him!  May good karma follow him!

[JJReyes]

The honest cab driver story was extensively featured in American and international media. The television interviews went viral on YouTube. I concluded he was Filipino based on his name and heavy accent, but his ethnic background was not mentioned except in the Philippine version of the story.

 

What makes the story endearing is it never occurred to him to keep the money.

[Old55]

Seems we only hear of scams from Filipinos the fact is the majority are amazing good people. It just takes some bad apples to poison the whole.

Edited December 30, 2013 by Old55

[MikeB]

It's a nice feel-good story about a struggling-immigrant-honest cabdriver, but what realistic choice did he have but to return it? The doorman saw the money so there was at least 1 witness. Try keeping it quiet. What was the driver going to say when the "professional gambler" came looking for it, as he did?  

[Call me bubba]

another article from las vegas about this Honest man.

 

http://thevegaspinoy.wordpress.com/page/2/

 

 

Gerardo Gamboa with the $10,000 reward he received for returning $300,000 in cash left behind in his cab.

By Bert Eljera

 

LAS VEGAS – The Filipino-American cab driver who returned $300,000 in hard cash

left behind by a passenger was rewarded handsomely for his honesty.

Gerardo Gamboa of Mabalacat, Pampanga and Silay City,

received $10,000 Friday from the owner of the money, a professional poker player who chose to remain anonymous. His identity, however, has been established.

“I’ll give this to my wife, and we can buy some stuff,” said the 34-year-old Gamboa,

who created a worldwide sensation for returning the money left behind in his cab on Christmas Day.

“I’m happy that we can show to the world the Filipino is a good person, and can not be easily dazzled by money.”

Together with the $1,000 reward and steak dinner for two from Yellow Checker Star,

the cab company Gamboa has been working for, it was a rewarding Christmas for the 13-year cab veteran.

“We’re so proud of him” said Bill Shranko, the company’s COO.

“He epitomizes the culture of honesty we try to develop among our drivers.”

In an interview with the  Las Vegas Review-Journal, Gamboa

said he found the money after noticing a brown paper bag in the back seat of the cab.

 

When a passenger got in, “I told my passenger, ‘You are my witness on this,”

and then I immediately called my dispatcher.”

Gamboa took the six bundles of $100 bills to the company’s main office,

where Las Vegas police and casino officials linked it to the poker player.

Gamboa said the poker player gave him a $5 tip after a trip from the Cosmopolitan resort to the Palms Place tower,

and Gamboa then drove to the Bellagio resort, where a doorman helping a passenger into the car noticed the bag.

Once the cash was secured at the taxi company office, it was tracked to the owner through Cosmopolitan records. The man arrived at the office in sweats and a T-shirt to reclaim his money, but he didn’t have any identification.

 

YCS officials took another few hours conferring with the Cosmopolitan and Metro Police to make sure.

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