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Utility Worker Opens a Meter Box and Cracks a Hidden Racket: The Harmon Building Case

Utility Worker Opens a Meter Box and Cracks a Hidden Racket: The Harmon Building Case

A utility lineman found a laminated Jack of Clubs with four numbers written across it tucked inside a meter cabinet bolted to the Harmon Building - behind it, an index card listed surnames and dollar amounts that masked a lending operation and a city inspector signing documents he should not have signed. How did a playing card become the key to unraveling two years of covert payments, elevated interest and an informal system of consequences?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence from the June 14, 2011…

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