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The Dry-Cleaner's Ledger: How Garment Bags Hid a City's Racket
The Dry-Cleaner's Ledger: How Garment Bags Hid a City's Racket
A routine Tuesday in October 2011 hid a six-year cash racket inside an ordinary dry-cleaning business: Apex Garment Care ran six storefronts, four vans, and a depot while 45 small enterprises paid weekly cash amounts from $200 to $1,200 into a ledger that used garment ticket numbers as codes. How did garment bags, mileage logs and a city inspector’s sign-offs keep this scheme invisible for so long?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the October morning when Leon Ward noticed the garment bags to the March 2012 financial…
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