Florida man says Wells Fargo sacked him over daughter’s cancer treatment costs
The company claims that Yovany Gonzalez was fired because of falsified timesheets, but he insists the case has more to do with heartlessness than malfeasance.
Yovany Gonzalez via MySpace
Yovany Gonzalez of Palm Beach County, Fla., is suing Wells Fargo for allegedly firing him because his late daughter’s cancer treatments were too costly.
A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming that the company fired him because his late daughter's cancer treatments were too costly.Yovany Gonzalez worked as a securities broker at Wells Fargo branch in Palm Beach County, Fla., when one of his children, Mackenzie, was diagnosed with cancer in 2008, ABC News reported.
The 36-year-old says Wells Fargo terminated him nearly two years later — three days before his daughter was to undergo an operation to remove a tumor.
Gonzalez claims in the lawsuit filed Thursday that the surgery was cancelled because the family was no longer covered by Wells Fargo's health insurance.
Charitable contributions, however, eventually funded Mackenzie's surgery.
She died in 2011 at age 6.
Pa. woman accused of killing fiance on wedding day
HOKENDAUQUA, Pa. — Authorities say an eastern Pennsylvania woman stabbed her fiance to death during an argument on their wedding day.Na Cola Darcel Franklin is charged with criminal homicide in the death of 36-year-old Billy Rafeal Brewster in their Whitehall Township apartment.
Police say they found Brewster bleeding shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday. District Attorney Jim Martin says he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The (Allentown) Morning Call reports that at her video arraignment Saturday, the 31-year-old Franklin wept and choked out, "I did not kill him on purpose."
FACT CHECK: Social Security’s funding shortfall adds to budget deficit _ in a roundabout way
WASHINGTON — Now that Social Security is paying more in benefits than it collects in taxes, there is a fierce debate among politicians, academics and advocates about whether those shortfalls are adding to the federal budget deficit.The issue is important because the federal government’s annual deficit already exceeds $1 trillion, making any more borrowing tough to swallow. If Social Security is adding to the government’s financial problems, it becomes even more urgent to fix it.
The Facts: Social Security’s shortfalls are adding to the federal budget deficit, in a roundabout way. One big reason: The rest of the government has been running such huge deficits over the years that it has spent all of the surpluses accumulated by Social Security.
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