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Article: Dyson's Top Aide Died Nearly Penniless;Court Records Show Pappas Had Debts of $13,000, No Savings
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 11, 1989
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Thomas Pappas, the top aide to Rep. Roy Dyson (D-Md.), was
essentially penniless when he plunged to his death from a New York
hotel last year, court records indicate.
The 49-year-old Pappas jumped from a window of the Helmsley
Palace Hotel in New York in May 1988 after an article in The
Washington Post reported that he ran Dyson's congressional office in
Washington in unorthodox fashion and made unusual demands on the male
office staff.
Although Pappas liked to hold court at a Capitol Hill club,
vacationed one year aboard the Orient Express in Europe, and
maintained an expensive wardrobe, he apparently left no savings or
assets when he died.
Records of his estate on file at the Prince ...