KOHL ON UNCLAIMED PROPERTY LIST

SENATOR JOINS ONE MILLION OTHERS IN STATE
TREASURER SASS HOLDS $352 MILLION
IS SOME OF IT YOURS?

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld

By Michael Horne

And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team

Gosh! You get elected to the U.S. Senate, put hundreds of millions of dollars into a blind trust, and then what? Your name winds up on the Unclaimed Property List for the state of Wisconsin. For this we pay our trustees the big money?
Fortunately congress is on recess, so Sen. Herb Kohl can jump on the Badger Bus and claim his monies from treasurer Dawn Marie Sass at her Madison office.
Or, he and the thousands of others similarly situated can log onto the treasurer's Unclaimed Property Search to see if they, or their friends, have money coming. (Herb's is from Medco Health Solutions.) They are among the over 1 million people and businesses with over $352 million in unclaimed property.
The senior senator from Wisconsin joins Kohl's, his namesake corporation on the list of Milwaukee County claimants, published in a 20-page special section of the Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a very welcome bonanza for the struggling paper.
Unclaimed accounts are listed for a range of companies that should have known better than to leave money laying around, including Bank One, BNY Clearing, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Strong Funds and other financial powerhouses, including some that haven't gone out of business, like M&I and NML.
Even attorneys like Michael Hupy & Associates, who promise to get you every penny of the money you've got coming to you, have left a bit on the treasurer's table (Accts: 1703851, 1656512 and 2052499).
The Milwaukee Brewers have got money coming, as do the Milwaukee Water Works, the City of Milwaukee, the restaurant at the County Zoo, the Milwaukee School Board, and "Milw Treasurer Whittow" (probably one of Wayne's pension or social security checks).
Even such old-timey names as Vogel, Van Dyke and Uihlein are on the list. These are the people who have people to take care of these things! What has happened to this community's trust and estate professionals that they allow old money to be scattered about like so much tinsel?
Why not ask Account holder #1602703, Mr. Robert A. Uihlein? [Yes. We know he's dead; rhetorical question.--Ed.]
According to the records of the treasurer, you can find Mr. Uihlein at 777 E. Winslow Avenue, Suite 2395. Oh, please! Everybody knows there is no building that tall on Winslow Avenue. Must be a wrong address.