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The Chair Who Invented a Fee: The Millbrook Certification Racket
The Chair Who Invented a Fee: The Millbrook Certification Racket
A retired city worker found a laminator and a freshly laminated vendor placard for "Clearwater Slope Organics" - a business that never sold a thing at the market - and that single photograph became exhibit one in a scheme that funneled illegitimate supplemental fees through the Millbrook Agricultural Certification Racket. How did a certified placard, a storage-room laminator, and routine municipal audits let a racket quietly charge vendors hundreds of dollars for a fee that had no legal basis?
In this episode, we follow the…
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