Empty-Sealed Barrels: How Four Hollow Casks Exposed a Two-Year Bourbon Scam
Empty-Sealed Barrels: How Four Hollow Casks Exposed a Two-Year Bourbon Scam
The first sound that cracked this case was a hollow ring: four bourbon casks sealed as full but sounding empty when a lineman knocked at 6:40 AM on a Tuesday in August 2019. How did factory-fresh regulatory seals end up on barrels that had never held a drop, and what two-year scheme led to that impossible contradiction?
In this episode, we follow the discovery at Barrow & Fenn Spirits Holding and trace the paperwork, people, and hiding places that revealed a multi-layer fraud. You'll hear how a routine electrical…
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