A Dead Man's Permit Exposes a Small City's Secret Market Racket
A Dead Man's Permit Exposes a Small City's Secret Market RacketA laminated vendor permit found in the snow led a 15-year-old to a filing cabinet that exposed a six-year racketeering system worth nearly $300,000 running through a mid-sized city's fairground market. Who turned a $40 permit issued to a man dead for fourteen months into a cash-for-access machine that bypassed every public record?In this episode, we trace how a single permit discovered on December 9, 2011 set off inquiries that revealed hundreds of ghost permits, unauthorized gate entries, and hidden cash payments - and ask how…
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