The Locked Filing Cabinet That Bought a Town's Convention Market
The Locked Filing Cabinet That Bought a Town's Convention MarketDanger hid behind a tan, four-drawer filing cabinet left in a snow-dusted alley at 6:41 a.m. on a February Tuesday in 2009 - no footprints, no tire tracks, a wiped lock, and nine years of a hidden economy inside that decided who could book Harwick’s convention market. Who built this private tollbooth, how did it manipulate hotel availability, and what did one investigator read that everyone else missed?In this episode, we tell the story contained in that locked cabinet and the sequence of people, payments, and logs that formed a…
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