Colorado business tries to cover $23K subcontractor debt with 3-ton coin payment: 'A major F-U'

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JMF Enterprises delivered a “symbolic middle finger,” when it attempted to pay Fired Up Fabrication LLC in quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies — that weighed 6,500 pounds — following a financial dispute that was apparently settled over the summer, a lawyer for Fired Up FabricationThe thousands in coins were delivered by a flatbed truck in a 2x3x4 box about six weeks ago to the office of Fired Up Fabrications’ attorney Danielle Beem.

Beem said she was told by the driver “it was full of a mix of loose coins and JMF’s lawyer told her “it required a forklift to move.”A Colorado business wants to pay off its $23,500 debt to another company in three tons of coins, according to a report.JMF previously hired Fired Up, a welding company, as a subcontractor to do work on an apartment building, but didn’t pay the business in full when the job was done, according to a lawsuit previously filed.

Beem, whose elevator can only hold about 3,000 pounds, said she couldn’t accept the payment even if she wanted to, and called the delivery “petty,” CBS Colorado reported.“The coins, being current coin of the realm, constituted a tender of the settlement funds, and therefore, JMF has complied with the terms of the agreement,” JMF lawyer Giovanni Camacho wrote, according to the news outlet. “The settlement agreement did not outline any specific form for the payment.

 

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