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According to long-time friend Lay Lee Ong, Rey communicated verbal wishes to Ong that conflicted with the provisions of her will, reducing the amount that the 16 named beneficiaries, including PBHA, would receive...
...Ong, co-executor of Rey's estate, said Rey instructed her to distribute $2.9 million that the two shared in a joint account to six additional charities. Proposed beneficiaries include the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, medical research and, ironically, Helping Hands, a program designed to train monkeys for help in the homes of invalids...
Seeking to fulfill Rey's final wishes but realizing the lack of written evidence regarding the oral bequests, Ong said she proposed a compromise, whereby 85 percent of the joint account would fund the six additional charities Rey named...
WGBH and other beneficiaries challenged Ong's credibility, stalling the process, according to Nancy Sterling, spokesperson for Ong's lawyer, Richard Mintz...
...past five years only a handful of sweatshop owners has been prosecuted for failing to pay workers. The government failure has created an even more lawless enclave. Local cops say that as the immigrants become more desperate for money, they often turn to crime. According to Tommy Ong of the New York police intelligence division, the sleazy employment agencies under the Manhattan Bridge that specialize in placing illegal immigrants in jobs around the country often misrepresent and oversell the type of work available. When workers return and can't pay off their immigration debt, the gangsters (or "snakeheads") offer them...