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Local businessman pays robber’s debt to Brady

61-year-old stole 2 flower planters worth $8,000

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updated 6:16 p.m. ET July 11, 2009

BOSTON - A convicted bank robber who says he had to panhandle to repay a debt to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has had his debt erased by a local businessman.

Dennis Paiva was ordered by a court to pay $4,000 after selling Brady’s expensive flower boxes for scrap metal, mistakenly believing they’d been put behind Brady’s Boston condominium as trash in May 2008.

Dan Greenwald, the owner of a Burlington ad agency, said he decided to pay the restitution after reading about Paiva’s plight in the Boston Herald on Friday.

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Greenwald said it seemed as if Paiva, who says he can’t work because of recent surgery, got “the rawest of raw deals.”

The 61-year-old Paiva said Greenwald’s gift was like “a dream come true.”

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