Exclusive | Good Samaritans hand Post reader $53k check after bitter pension row with JPMorgan

A New Jersey widow brushed off by JPMorgan in a bitter battle over her husband’s $53,000 pension received a surprise check for the entire sum — from a pair of strangers “touched” by her plight, The Post has learned.Elaine Silverberg, 73, has been embroiled in a 13-year feud to recoup the money from the nation’s largest lender, which refused making the payout because of a clerical error by her late husband.The Teaneck, NJ grandmother’s David-versus-Goliath battle — reported exclusively by The Post in November –– caught the attention of two insurance executives more than 600 miles away in North Carolina.Roy Messer, a 57-year-old health insurance broker from Charlotte, and his business partner Bill Rice, also 57, said they were shocked by the penny-pinching from the bank run by Jamie Dimon and took matters into their own hands.“I couldn’t believe for such an amount of money that they wouldn’t want to do the right thing.There is no doubt that her husband would have wanted that money to go to her and his kids,” Rice said.

“I imagine that for Jamie Dimon this is like a nickel falling out of his pocket.I would like to believe that he just doesn’t know (about this).”Messer, who served in the Marine Corps between 1986 and 1989, said he was “touched” Silverberg’s story and that wiring her the money was “the right thing to do.”.“I don’t know her and I could have very easily just turned the page.

But when something like that reaches out and grabs you, I looked at it and thought: What if that was my mother?” he told The Post.Silverberg was left stunned by their gesture, saying it “restored my faith in mankind.”“In this crazy world we live in, it is remarkable that such kindness also exists.I am flabbergasted at their extreme generosity,” she told The Post.JPMorgan declined to comment, but a senior source inside the bank said the rules governing its pension fund ban any exceptions from being carved out.JPMorgan insiders t...