A New York City cab driver is being praised for returning over $21,000 lost by a visitor heading to Long Island from Italy.
Seventy-two-year-old Felicia Lettieri, of Italy, left her purse in a Manhattan taxi on Christmas Eve. It contained traveling money for her and six relatives.
Mohammad "Mukal" Asadujjaman speaks during an interview at his home in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Asadujjaman is being praised for returning over $21,000 left in his taxi by a visitor from Italy. He says he's "broke but honest" and owes his values to his mother and his Muslim beliefs. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)
Police told them not to get their hopes up about finding it.
But the cabbie, Mohammad “Mukal” Asadujjaman, drove about 50 miles, to an LI address he’d found in the purse. No one was home, so he left his phone number, and later returned with the money.
The 28-year-old driver from Bangladesh said that as an observant Muslim he could not accept the reward offered by the grateful passenger.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
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