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Jack of Spades and the Laundromat That Bought Silence
Jack of Spades and the Laundromat That Bought Silence
A single jack of spades with a brass key labeled "CAGE ROOM" was left on a city sidewalk and it unspooled six years of hidden corruption in a town of just under forty thousand-so how did a laundromat hide an illicit gambling ring and a web of payoffs? The card, a hardware receipt, and one man's handwriting turned routine municipal work into the thread that exposed everything.
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events that connected a playing card to an upstairs card room, weekly cash collections, and a county official who took…
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