The Septic Tank Bid: How a Hidden Proposal Exposed a City's Racket
The Septic Tank Bid: How a Hidden Proposal Exposed a City's RacketThe morning someone pulled a laminated construction bid out of a septic tank, they found a document dated four days before the city had legally posted the job - and a city’s seven-year pattern of rigged demolition contracts began to unravel. How did one buried bid, weighted with a single hex bolt inside a gallon zip-lock bag, expose a network of shell companies, arranged fires, and protection payments in a mid-sized city?In this episode, we follow the discovery and aftermath starting at 7:00 AM on July 14, 2011, and trace how a…
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