thomas rico was the public works inspector in ridgewood. guilty last week to four counts of third-degree theft, admitting that he stole at least $460,000 from the town. specifically, though, and this is the geek part of it, he stole those $460,000 from the town in quarters. over the course of 25 months he stole quarters from ridgewood's meter collection room. meter as in parking meter. he stole almost half a million dollars in people's parking money. which, okay, is sad and corrupt and pitiful. but b, is also kind of amazing. i mean, physically, how did he do this? first of all, $460,000 -- $460,600 equals a little over 1.8 million quarters. the 1.8 million quarters in total are said to have been pilfered over a period of 25 months. if we assume conservatively that mr. rica took two weeks' vacation and he worked a five-day week that would mean there were approximately 520 workdays in his stealing zone and that would mean on average mr. rico would have walked off with 3,543 quarters every day he was at work. 3,500 quarters a day. how -- what

up 47 he was the building inspector for ridgewood village so he had access to the money collected fromjust to put it in perspective, $460,000 equals nearly 2 million quarters. that would weigh about 11 and half tons, about six and a half full-size cars. as part of a plea deal, the former employee will get five years of patient must pay back the money is of ridgewood. a new tech mystery is now unfolding in the bay area. san jose city officials approved a $2 million square-foot office project. amazon, global and facebook have been mentioned as potential tenants. the space has will for eight to 10,000 employees. the 10 buildings, seven stories high will be built on top of two levels of a below ground parts in. >> nearly $760 million in unclaimed tax refunds will soon become property of the u.s. government if taxpayers do not collected. the irs say that the money belongs to about 918,000 taxpayers will still have not filed their 2010 tax returns. if you are among that group you must file your 2010 return by april 15th in order to collect your refund. otherwise, the irs gets to keep it. >>

a former inspector in the village of ridgewood has pleaded guilty to stealing $460,000 in money collectedrom parking meters. thomas rica basically took the money one quarter at a time over the course of about two years. he got busted when a village employee noticed lots of quarters missing. >> there was no money spent on any elicit matters, just spent it to add to what he was using to live on. >> in return for rica's guilty play, prosecutors will recommend that he receive five years probation and that he has to pay about $200,000 in restitution. >>> there is disturbing news about alzheimer's disease. a study finding that it is more likely to strike women. 1 in 6 over the age of 60, that's twice the likelihood of breast cancer. the report of the alzheimer's association also finds that women are more likely to care for someone with the disease and less likely to ask for help. >>> now a subject near and dear to those of us who work the night shoplifts. the chronic lack of sleep could lead to brain damage. catching up on your sleep doesn't fix it, at least that's what a study found in mice. r

former ridgewood, new jersey public works inspector must have calves like cantaloupes at this point. he also represents the very narrow intersection in the venn diagram of public corruption and physical fitness. mr. rica will serve five years' probation. his plea deal stipulates that he must pay back all the money he stole from the town parking meters. in the end crime does not pay. but it can be very slimming if you steal from all the right places in all the right ways. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow night. now it's time for "the last word." >>> the seven largest economies in the world shunned vladimir putin today. and the mystery of what happened to the missing malaysia airlines plane is now much less mysterious. >> we start with the latest on missing malaysian flight 370. >> the missing flight did not take a northern route over land. >> all evidence suggests the plane went down -- >> flight 370 did in fact go down -- >> -- in the southern indian ocean. >> according to this new data -- >> this conclusion is based on the satellite images. >> like image 370

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quarter into the king's highway savings account every week and got a bankbook and it showed -- >> the ridgewood savings bank. >> there you go, another fine new york institution. that's not done anymore and children from families face significant barriers attending college and owning a home. for several congresses i've introduced congressman gingrich was a sponsor, senator santorum. it has real bipartisan support, the aspire act that would establish a universal child savings account with federal seed money and matching contributions. i first am appreciative of the chairman highlighting this issue as one of the issues he wants to move this year i really appreciate. he mentioned it in his opening remarks. but i hope we can count on your support and the administration's support for technical guidance as we move forward and support of the basic concept create ag lifetime savings fund for every child wen issued a social security number, teaching people to save, encouraging people to save, one of the great problems in america is we don't save enough the way we used to. would you please comment? >> sen

we will hear from ken in ridgewood, new york, apparent -- a parent. what has been your spirits with the sat? caller: good morning. you colleges still even care about sat scores? our son took the test just one time and he got 6 perfect scores but he is still having trouble getting into us will. -- into a school. host: 6 perfect scores? caller: a 600 on the test, which is like 6 a-+'s. host: what schools did he apply to? caller: our local junior college and harvard. host: what have been the reasons? does he know why he was not accepted into those schools? caller: well, he studied for it. he bought all the products. .otebooks, pens and paper i think what it comes down to is that the test itself has become irrelevant. host: ok. here are some of the changes to the sat. the point scale returns to 1600. the writing test is now optional. points no longer deducted for incorrect multiple-choice answers. the papers this morning saying that the test will encourage guessing. print and digital versions of tasks will be offered. vocabularybscure words will be replac

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a former inspector in the village of ridgewood has pleaded guilty to stealing $460,000 in money collectedoney one quarter at a time over the course of about two years. he got busted when a village employee noticed lots of quarters missing. >> there was no money spent on any elicit matters, just spent it to add to what he was using to live on. >> in return for rica's guilty plea, prosecutors will recommend that he receive five years probation and that he has to pay about $200,000 in restitution. >>> there is disturbing news about alzheimer's disease. a study finding that it is more likely to strike women. 1 in 6 over the age of 60, that's twice the likelihood of breast cancer. the report of the alzheimer's association also finds that women are more likely to care for someone with the disease and less likely to ask for help. >>> now a subject near and dear to those of us who work the night shifts. the chronic lack of sleep could lead to brain damage. catching up on your sleep doesn't fix it, at least that's what a study found in mice. researchers say the next step is to examine the brains o

one thing is from ron rogers in ridgewood, new jersey. he says in the fall 2013 news came out that you were ever so close to a major multibillion dollar acquisition of what would have never been another elephant. would you tell us what industry group it's in? >> yeah, i better not even say what industry it was in. because there aren't that many companies in the industry. and by the size of it, you would probably narrow it down to two or three companies. it didn't happen. but there's -- we're always seeing the leaves russelling if nothing else. there has to be something behind those leaves. we will -- there's nothing hot at the moment, but we have things we're working on. >> you said in the annual letter to shareholders that when it comes to taking a look at what happened with heinz, that this is a temporary plate for things that berkshire might do in the future. have you spoken with 3g about doing another type of acquisition like heinz? >> we've talked about generally -- we don't have a name, but both georgia power lemon who is my partner