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Lineman Finds One Word That Brings Down a City Racket: The Hartwell Towing Case
Lineman Finds One Word That Brings Down a City Racket: The Hartwell Towing Case
A single underlined word - "cleared" - written in red ballpoint ink on a laminated dispatch page eight feet off the ground started a chain that exposed four years of systematic collection and 211 entries tied to Hartwell Towing. How did a utility lineman's photograph become State's Exhibit Seven and lead Detective Gary West to a scheme that reached city hall?
In this episode, we trace the evidence from the pole on Renner Boulevard to the files on a detective's desk, following the people, payments, and logs that…
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