The Marigolds, The Ledger, and the City's Hidden Protection Racket
The Marigolds, The Ledger, and the City's Hidden Protection Racket
A routine morning run turned into the discovery that toppled a $412,000 extortion scheme: a laminated ledger wrapped in a zip-lock bag and buried in a newly planted marigold bed led to the unraveling of a protection racket hidden in ordinary city maintenance. Who buried the ledger, and why did one two-letter entry - "CE" for $2,200 every month - become the key to exposing two years of corruption?
In this episode, we follow the moment Carl Ward found the buried ledger and trace how Crestline Property Services, its employees…
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