Ill. man loses $13,000 in donated suit

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Charity workers hunted through piles of donated clothes at an Iowa warehouse yesterday, hoping to find $13,000 that an elderly man says he mistakenly left in the pocket of a suit he gave to a Goodwill store in western Illinois. The 80-year-old Illinois man notified Goodwill of the Heartland last week of his mistake, said Dana Engelbert, vice president of marketing for the charity. Engelbert said the man’s wife has cancer and they had been using the money to offset her medical expenses.

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