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Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon.com, had made a generous gift of $15.5 million to help rebuild Maui — or it would qualify as generous, as soon as its whereabouts are known. A Bloomberg story published here Saturday reported that the beneficiaries of the so-named Bezos Maui Fund aren’t specified, and local officials and nonprofits have not been able to trace it.
This is presumably part of the $100 million pledge that, a spokesperson said, “will be distributed in the coming years.” Perhaps this is a package that needed a tracking number from Amazon to ensure its delivery.