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The Pillowcase of Cash That Quietly Bought an Entire Town

The Pillowcase of Cash That Quietly Bought an Entire Town

A pillowcase in a drainage ditch held $6,300 in rubber-banded bills and a laminated index card listing eleven restaurants and four hotels with unofficial dollar amounts - evidence that led from a road worker's cell-phone photo to a decade-long cash racket touching a city council seat. How did small weekly envelopes tucked into linen bags become a system that quietly funnelled cash through a commercial laundry into local power?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the July 14, 2011 discovery to the records, receipts, and…

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