When Michael Swanson woke up Tuesday morning this is what he was facing: His one-month-old son, Adam, had spent the night in the hospital with a fever. His girlfriend still was recovering from gallbladder surgery. And he had to get to his job in the maintenance department at the University of Virginia, where he has worked since the furniture company he had spent 17 years making parts for disappeared.
It was also April 30 and, if he was smart, he'd be $200,000 richer by morning. "I said to myself, I am never going to be in this situation again. I have to go get it."
