The Questionable Government Practice of “Escheatment”

In the 1990s Walter Schramm, a Delaware resident, invested in Amazon stock. As the stock’s value grew, Schramm left his Amazon investment alone only to learn in 2015 that it had been escheated by the state of Delaware in 2008. As NPR’s Audrey Quinn explained, escheatment occurs “when a state…
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