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The Creek Ledger: How a Runner Drowned a County's Secret Scheme
The Creek Ledger: How a Runner Drowned a County's Secret Scheme
A dark green hardcover ledger stood upright in eight inches of clear water on the eastern bank of Cresset Creek on the morning of December 11, 2009 - its pages dry, closed, and cinched with a rubber band. Sixty-one coded entries across three years would link routine permit delays to weekly payoffs between $400 and $2,200; how did a jogger’s call set off the end of a fourteen-year racket?
In this episode, we follow how a runner found a ledger, a bookkeeper photographed a second set of suspicious records, and a two-person financial…
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