The government gets to keep stacks of cash found by police on an Ontario man’s property — including $1.2 million buried in a tub under the floor of his garage — even though the owner was found not guilty of possessing the proceeds of crime and other charges. Article content

After 16 years of fighting to get it back, Marcel Breton lost his legal appeal on Monday over his mysterious mounds of money. Article content

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A police discovery in 2009 of huge amounts of cash on a rural property surrounded by forest just outside of Thunder Bay was eye catching.

Stacks and bundles of money, mostly in $20 bills, was found hidden in various spots of a home and detached buildings on the property, but the centrepiece was the contents of a large Rubbermaid tub buried

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