Spammer’s grandparents allow AOL dig
File this one under “What the fuck?”
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The grandparents of former neo-Nazi Davis Wolfgang Hawke have given permission to America Online to search their outside property in Westwood for gold that the spam-meister Hawke may have buried there.
Robert A. Davis, Hawke’s 90-year-old grandfather, said he just didn’t want a protracted legal fight with AOL that would sap him of time and money - and so he has agreed to let AOL bring radar and sonar equipment on his land to determine if there might be gold bars underground.
“Let’s just say I don’t like it,” said Davis, emphasizing he won’t let AOL into his home where he and his ailing wife live. He also said he won’t let it dig up his lawn.
“It’s rediculous,” added Llewellyn Davis, Hawke’s grandmother, referring to AOL’s legal pressure to search and possibly dig up their yard.
AOL was supposed to show up yesterday to begin its search, but apparently had equipment problems, Robert Davis said, adding he didn’t know when AOL workers might show up.
AOL, which last year won a $13 million judgment against Hawke and co-spammers, believes Hawke may have buried gold and plantinum bars on Davis’ property, as well as at his parents’ house in Medfield.
Hawke, who’s known to have purchased about $351,000 in gold and platinum bars from a Boston dealer, made millions on his email spamming schemes before he disappeared after AOL slapped him with a lawsuit.
Hawke’s mother, Peggy Greenbaum, was still defiant yesterday, vowing to fight AOL’s attempt to search her Medfield home.
“I’m getting angrier and angrier,” she said.
An AOL spokesman couldn’t be reached for comment.