No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Your Government in Action
Outpouring of sympathy for Hackensack good Samaritan whose noble deed proved costly
Saturday November 9, 2013, 8:13 PM
BY SHAWN BOBURG
STAFF WRITER
The Record
His simple, honest deed received international attention. And just as far-reaching have been offers to help the formerly homeless Hackensack man, James Brady, who is now paying a price for turning in $850 cash he found on the street.
How you can help
Bergen County’s United Way has set up a fund to benefit James Brady. Donations can be made in a number of ways:
Through the charity’s secure website at www.bergenunitedway.org/compassionfund/helpjamesbrady
By check, made out to “BCUW/Compassion Fund/Mr. Brady,” and mailed to United Way, 6 Forest Ave., Paramus, NJ 07652.
Readers from throughout the country asked how they could help Brady on Saturday, and a local non-profit group set up a fund to collect donations, after a story in The Record that detailed how Brady lost government benefits because of his good deed.
Last month, city police gave Brady the money he had turned in to them six months earlier because it had remained unclaimed. City officials celebrated his honest act, and he became a minor celebrity.
But a city employee responsible for administering aid for the needy saw the widely circulated story and canceled his benefits through the end of this year because he had failed to disclose the $850 on paperwork, The Record reported Saturday.
Arun Arora, 42, of Chicago, who read about Brady on the Internet, saw someone being punished for his good intentions.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/community/hackensack_brady_homeless.html#sthash.OQjsgtLn.dpuf
