# What's the most money you've ever been responsible for, that wasn't yours?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 25, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-youve-ever-been-responsible-for-that-wasnt-yours/586850 "2011-06-25T21:32:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-youve-ever-been-responsible-for-that-wasnt-yours/586850/41 "2011-06-28T20:31:07Z")

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I was involved in (though not _responsible_ for, per se - my part was producing the backup reporting for it) the process of wiring two billion dollars in a single day.  
Yes, that’s a ‘b’, as in ‘2’ followed by 9 zeroes.

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**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-youve-ever-been-responsible-for-that-wasnt-yours/586850/42 "2011-06-29T02:17:13Z")

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Very soon I’ll be responsible for taking care of about 500k for my mother.

Perhaps not in the same league with some of the numbers mentioned above but it is her entire worth and she needs the income to be able to afford to live.

It’s way, way scarier than taking care of about the same amount of money of my own.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-youve-ever-been-responsible-for-that-wasnt-yours/586850/43 "2011-06-29T02:23:49Z")

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> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> Great story, **DMark**. 😃
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> I would have been tickled if I had found that check. In fact, I think I would have put it back, pulled up a chair and just sat by the photocopy machine waiting to see what would happen.

You are so evil - and hopefully you would have had some electric paddles to restart my heart when I saw the check missing. Seriously, I still get a small nervous tic in my left eyelid when I think of how close I came to royally screwing up!

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**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-youve-ever-been-responsible-for-that-wasnt-yours/586850/44 "2011-06-29T03:47:54Z")

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A good friend of mine is personally responsible for $4.5 Billion of other people’s money. There’s oversight and what-not, but that’s the chunk that’s his to deal with.

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