"The town compiled a list of all the applicants for the money and put all of their account information on a floppy disk to send to the bank in order to execute the transfers." - I thought floppy disks were only used at nuclear power plants these days.

None of this makes any sense. Next step, get the mafia to recover the money.

He made off with about $33k. I wonder if it will have been worth it for him in the long run.

I think 46.3 million yen is about $363,000