14 DAY TRIAL // Bill Gates will have to put his projects at Microsoft on hold and pause his charity work across the world sometime these days and go pay a $30,000 fine because someone at a trust he owns apparently placed an old manure bin too close to a canal somewhere in Wellington, a South Florida village.
It turns out that the Mallet Hill Trust, which Bill Gates partially owns after having bought a $9 million share in 2013, according to Reuters, was fined $147,000, after a horse manure bin was placed too close to a local canal.
What’s more, the trust built a second bin without receiving the approval to replace the old one, said code compliance manager Steven Koch, who also admitted that he didn’t know that Bill Gates was involved in the business.
The trust was first fined in January 2014, but because nobody paid, a penalty of $250 a day was added since the summer of 2014. The total fine now reaches $147,000, but Bill Gates received an 80 percent discount.
And in case you’re wondering, horse manure is quite an issue in the region, as there are more than 12,000 horses locally producing a total of 100,000 tons of manure, so handling its disposal is critical to everyone living there. Bill Gates’ trust broke the rules and now has to pay a fine worth one and a half top-of-the-range Surface Hub devices.