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The Grader Finds What the Schools Couldn't: The Pencil Tax Case
The Grader Finds What the Schools Couldn't: The Pencil Tax Case
A county road grader blade pushed a canvas deposit bag into a ditch at 6:40 a.m. on a Tuesday in September 2011, and inside was cash, a collection log, and a laminated ID badge that tied a school supply racket to forty-seven districts. How did simple orders for pencils and toner hide a protection-payment operation for nine years-and who kept it hidden until a misplaced badge exposed the ledger?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Melvin Myers finding the bag to state investigator Norman Hansen receiving the evidence…
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