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American financier in a major corporation, Assistant Comptroller in the International Division. On 3/07/1962, he began work at the place of employment where he stayed for the rest of his working career, retiring on 11/01/1975. Tony is married, no children; health good. What he has accomplished in life was through hard work and tenacity and by the time he was 50, he and his wife had a beautiful home in one of the finest residential areas, happy and comfortable. He was raised in relatively poor circumstances as a kid, but they had a clean warm home and good food and the entire family has strong, loving bonds. Tony married Marie in secret on 7/26/1939, then officially for the family on 6/07/1940. They were a devoted couple for the rest of their lives together. He served in the USAF during wartime, enlisting on 11/16/1942. He was sent to Egypt and Iran by ship in April 1944 to November 1945 and was discharged on 11/20/1945. He spent the following year in school at UCLA. He passed his CPA exams on 5/17/1950. He returned to UCLA in September 1952 and graduated with his BS in June 1954. Marie worked to carry the expenses while he went to school. There had been a half-dozen jobs up to this time. On 12/08/1961, Tony resigned from his position as vice-president in a company as he would not be party to improper financial procedures. For his lifetime, he was known as an honorable and trustworthy man, highly intelligent and shrewd financially, but extremely loyal and kind to his friends and loved ones; greatly respected. He made a business trip to Paris, Geneva, Bonn, Brussels and London on 9/09/1968. His dad died on 6/28/1947 and his mom on 2/16/1969. He was a passenger in a serious car accident in which he was almost killed on 6/07/1940, and was driving a car that was totaled in an accident on 10/13/1959. He had a hernia operation in February 1962. He bought some land in partnership with a friend on 2/03/1961, made a land purchase on 8/30/1964, and a purchase of land in Scottsdale, Arizona on 1/24/1967. His most important land purchase was on 4/16/1968, 4.2 acres in a contingent division overlooking the ocean which he may subdivide as investment speculation. He sold a lot in September 1971 for a fair price. For their own home, Tony and his wife purchased the land on 2/13/1946. They had a home built, starting May 1956 and finished on 12/31/1956, when they moved in. On 6/28/1968, he signed an important contract to drill on his land for proof of geological stability as the area has a stigma of being a potential land-slide. He and ten neighbors had the report done at a cost of $25,000. There are some 28 homes there of a couple acres each of prime real estate, a beautiful country area. The geologist report in 1970 approved the area as safe for building. In 1980, Tony and Marie were both retired and enjoying vacation trips to Hawaii and elsewhere when the secure order of their lives was shattered. The hills in their area began to slide, gradually cracking the foundations of their house. In 1978 and 79, the City of Rolling Hills and Los Angeles county approved extensive grading on two parcels to the East of Tonys acreage. These lots are next to a deep canyon that had been permitted to erode. The heavy bulldozing and deep cuts in the hills shook not only the hillsides but shook Tonys home. They disturbed the buttress that had held the hill in place for centuries. The grading was completed in December 1979 and in March 1980, a crack was seen in the roaRead less