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The Warm Thermos That Burned a Vending Kingpin's Empire
The Warm Thermos That Burned a Vending Kingpin's Empire
The alley smelled of metal and hot coffee before dawn - a thermos warm to the touch in a vending machine that had no business being hot. That single overlooked detail would unravel seven years of extortion, three suspicious fires, and a protection racket that bled thirty small businesses dry; how did one thermos become the thread that pulled the whole operation apart?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a legitimate vending business to a racketeering scheme, following the people, the ledger, and the mistakes…
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