The Blacklist in the Van: How a Librarian Toppled a City Racket
The Blacklist in the Van: How a Librarian Toppled a City Racket
A retired school librarian found a rubber-banded folder labeled "BLACKLIST - DO NOT COPY" sitting on the dashboard of a city van at 7:50 AM on a February morning in 2009; she photographed it, drove away, and those two images would later help topple a city racket that funneled $4,000-$8,000 per booking into a director's pocket. What exactly was inside that folder, and why was a municipal vehicle carrying it where it wasn't scheduled to be?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the discovery to the pieces of…
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