Cold Cash in the Cooler: How a Repairman Ran Hartwell's Extortion Ring
Cold Cash in the Cooler: How a Repairman Ran Hartwell's Extortion Ring
Steam rolled out of an open loading dock door on a January morning and a meter reader found nearly half a million dollars chilled to 38 degrees inside food-service containers labeled CHICKEN STOCK - BULK. The money was bundled, the building had been closed since December 15, 2010, and what began as a $12,000 informal loan at a backyard cookout would ripple into a five-year protection scheme strangling small food businesses - so how did refrigeration services become the lever for extortion?
In this episode, we follow the…
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