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Richard Squires and a note for a future payment of $ 20,000 plus interest. Begzos sold the note to the Traders Bank of Kansas City but never told Squires, who sent Begzos a check for $ 22,000 on September 19, 1981. Begzos cashed the check and did not use
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district attorneys office, who charged Begzos with theft over $ 10,000. Begzos reached a deal that reduced the charges to a misdemeanor after he agreed to give the bank possession of a home he owned in
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