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The Vending Machine That Burned a Town: How Meridian Extorted Route Owners
The Vending Machine That Burned a Town: How Meridian Extorted Route Owners
A single blurry photo taken at 4:40 AM on March 9, 2009 shows a fully stocked, humming vending machine thirty feet inside a scorched parking lot - contradicting an insurance claim that said it was destroyed and becoming Exhibit 114 in a federal racketeering trial. How did one photograph unravel eight years of arson, extortion, and forced sales across a four-county vending territory?
In this episode, we trace the sequence of events laid out in testimony and records: the rise of Meridian Service Group as a mid-size…
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