sounds like this should be archived somewhere, since it was headlines across all of Canada:
Years later he would get his 15 minutes of fame. In 1989, he told his bank he found $1.2 million in his account that he didn't remember depositing. Bank officials in Toronto insisted there was no mistake and the money belonged to him, while staff at the local branch scrambled to reconcile more than a million missing dollars. Bordynuik stuck with his story, which soon made headlines across Canada. Papers proclaiming "Honest John Returns $1.2 million" caught the eyes of influential Ontario Legislature IT staff.