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The Laminated Card: How a Dry-Cleaner Ran Dellridge's Protection Racket
The Laminated Card: How a Dry-Cleaner Ran Dellridge's Protection Racket
A faded laminated card pulled from a culvert on Fenwick Mill Road in mid-October 2011 turned out to list thirty-one addresses and two-letter codes that quietly ran a protection racket for over a decade. How did Owens Premium Dry Cleaning, a civic-facing business with four storefronts and a white van, hide $12,000-$15,000 a month in skimmed payments through commercial bookkeeping and city payroll schemes - and who inside the municipality kept it secret?
In this episode, we trace the discovery and immediate chain of events…
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