Locked Drawer, Empty Ditch: How a Filing Cabinet Exposed $5.6M Theft
Locked Drawer, Empty Ditch: How a Filing Cabinet Exposed $5.6M TheftThe discovery of a full-size steel filing cabinet sunk in a drainage ditch led investigators to two locked lower drawers that held two complete, contradictory sets of ledger books - and ultimately revealed a $5.6 million loss from a union pension fund. Why were identical fiscal-year ledgers duplicated and buried, and who benefited while nearly 300 union members lost their retirement security?In this episode, we follow the timeline from the cabinet’s discovery on April 14, 2011 to the forensic accounting that exposed eight…
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