The Night a Binder Exposed a Million-Dollar Union Scam
The Night a Binder Exposed a Million-Dollar Union Scam
At 2:00 a.m. on April 9, 1991, a three-ring binder with 41 handwritten pages documenting nearly $1.5 million in fraudulent pension disbursements was left on an office chair in a dark union annex - and no one called the police. Who left it there, why they waited to place it, and what finally forced the ledger into the light?
In this episode, we tell the story that begins with a meter reader finding a damp binder on a chair and ends with Detective David Riley reading a detailed accountant’s account of long-running fraud inside Local 228’s…
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