Coffee-Can Gold: How a Slag Trough Hid $480K for a Year
Coffee-Can Gold: How a Slag Trough Hid $480K for a Year
The ordinary clink of a coffee can hid $480,000 in stamped gold ingots that sat on a slag ledge for fourteen months, placed there every third Wednesday night. How did finished, certified gold leave a refinery in grocery-store packaging and vanish into a cash-by-cash operation?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of the scheme and the key people involved, from the moment the can was found to how the proceeds were spent, asking how industrial routines and small procedural gaps enabled nearly half a million dollars to disappear.
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