Hey reddit, I'm posting this here in hopes someone could point me in the right direction, and hopefully I'm not crazy.
My mom and dad are divorced (in 2013), but during the time of 1998/1999 she saved up the money to buy $6000 in Amazon stocks. I know that there was a depreciation in stocks, so when questioned my father claimed that “we lost it all”, but I know that Amazon's stocks quickly appreciated and that people made a lot of money if they had stuck with them during those years, and now Amazon is a multi-million dollar company. Trouble is, my mom doesn't have access to the joint bank account where she made the wire transfer, but she swears she made the purchase. How should she go about looking into this? I don't fully trust my father, since he's also an alcoholic and quite a manipulative person. However, he's never been a stock expert either, and we barely have contact.. am I crazy for thinking there's something to this?
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