I’m giving a storytelling workshop and performing an excerpt of my “Amok” monologue, “All Pucked Up: A short history of the American Filipino,” at the Filipino American National Historical Society conference in New York City on June 24.
Read about it here, on my blog post on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site.
Also, I reflect on Vincent Chin, 34 years later.
Read the column on Remembering Vincent Chin.
June 19-23 was the period where we remember the 33rd Anniversary of the brutal beating death of Vincent Chin. The killer, Ronald Ebens, has never spent a day in prison, but owes the Chin estate an amount that was more than $8 million in 2012 and continues to grow with interest.
My recent requests for an interview had been unanswered.
But before the anniversary week passed, I made one more attempt to reach Ebens.
And he answered.
I wanted to know if he was sitting on recently received money that should rightfully go to Vincent Chin’s estate.
Helen Zia, the executor of the estate for Vincent Chin, said it can use some help keeping tabs on Ronald Ebens in Nevada.
Still, there was a civil judgment of $1.5 million against Ebens that was won in Michigan. And that had grown to $8 million in 2012.
Zia told me opportunities to collect money are often missed. Recently, Ebens was the executor of the estate of a friend, who had just received a portion of a $4 million personal injury settlement.
Ebens recently came into some money–at least $120,000–for being an executor to a friend’s will.
But not even a token sum to the Vincent Chin estate to which Ebens owes nearly $10 million.
Click here to read my column on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog.
