The Jar on the Culvert: The Aldenmoor Farmers Market Racket
The Jar on the Culvert: The Aldenmoor Farmers Market Racket
A mason jar left on a culvert held $4,300 and a laminated Aldenmoor Farmers Market certificate dated three weeks before the farm even applied-printed on the board's own letterhead. Who used legitimate institutional access to backdate official certificates, and how long had the scheme been running before the jar exposed it?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events triggered by Earl Wagner's morning run that led investigators to a thirteen-month probe into the Farmers Market Certification Board, the placement of preferential…
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