Your link proves nothing. It's a blog that is re-pasting the e-mail and just furthering the exaggeration. Even the comments about the blog have links to sites like Snopes and TruthOrFiction pointing out that this isn't the way it happened. The pictures don't show him signing any checks either. Unless he carries around an 8"x11" checkbook and writes his checks with Sharpie markers.
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