About an hour later, the bank wrote a check for $5,772.88.
The moving company and the deputies would be paid from it. The rest would go to the Nyergeses.
A Bank of America spokeswoman, Jumana Bauwens, apologized by email for the “delay in receiving the funds.” She blamed an outside lawyer who was no longer in business.
Warren Nyerges was not impressed. “They couldn't even spell our name right in the apology,” he said.