An FBI agent was awarded $95,000 in a settlement for a federal lawsuit over a gun-toting toll booth clerk. The case started in 2008 when Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority officer Daniel Bell refused to take crumpled $1 bills as a toll payment. "Dude, you can't come up here with folded money and give it to me," Bell told agent Wilfred Rattigan. The argument escalated and ended with Rattigan filing a complaint after guns were pulled on both sides. Rattigan's lawyer told the Post, "This case will send a message to officers in the TBTA that they must act responsibly and respectfully toward the customers they serve." Even if it means tediously unfolding dollar bills.
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