So GR gave it away and the charity sold it? That's very peculiar that they don't have a record, because charities have to account for all the money they raise. I hope they tried as hard as they could to track the transaction.
Getting rid of a family heirloom just goes to show GR's total lack of care for his children's heritage. They should have been allowed to pass that dresser on to their own children one day. He should be ashamed of himself.
Also, as a trustee, I think he's broken the rules. A trust attorney would know, but I thought with most spouse trusts, property assets are not allowed to be sold, and that includes the furniture within them. If I'm correct, I would have thought that would be grounds for challenging his position as trustee in the courts, and asking for a conservator to be appointed.
(from other post) So Jennifer had been drinking water with lemon for years -- not just recently, as CC indicated on her useless list.
Charities give a receipt to donors when items are donated. But this is more for the donors if they want to get tax deduction, and can be waived by the donor if they don't itemize deductions on their taxes. When charities sell items, they keep a record of the sale but not to whom it was sold. But I was hoping they would have delivered it themselves, in which case they would have a record (because that's when you would write down your name and address), or if not, the employees who do deliveries might have remembered where they took it. So...perhaps whoever bought the dresser had their own truck or van.
I think getting rid of the heirloom was a way of getting rid of Jennifer -- maybe GR was seeing ghosts and feeling guilt every time he looked at that dresser, and other items that were Jennifer's and had been in her family for so long. Maybe also wanted to make room for the girlfriend's stuff.
Speaking of which, he's trying to forget Jennifer, while all around Chenango County and on the internet, there's blue ribbons popping up in trees, and bumper magnets on cars, and race cars with her name, and gardens planted in her memory, and candles burning, and prayers & poems dedicated to her, and online vigils...must have been driving him nuts!
But yes, absolutely no consideration for the children's heritage, and didn't even offer to give it back to the Renz family. But...as far as rules for trustees and such, I don't think there's such a thing a spouse trusts and children's trustees in the US for most ordinary people. In most states -- furniture and household items are considered joint property, so when one spouse dies, the contents of the home automatically belong to the surviving spouse (unless, of course, there was a will with items specifically designated). Minor children normally only have a trustee if both parents are dead, or if there's a very large trust fund specifically designated for them. I suppose that if GR is convicted, a trustee will then be assigned by the courts for the children.
I do hope that Buster died of natural causes, and was not another part of GR's campaign to rid himself of anything to do with Jennifer.
