The Four Barrels That Paperwork Swore Were Empty
The Four Barrels That Paperwork Swore Were EmptyThe air of rural western Virginia hides a weighty secret: a single barrel found on August 14, 2009, tipped the scales at 430 pounds and led investigators to three more casks worth about $31,000 that official records insisted did not exist. How did four 42-gallon casks of genuine aged bourbon, stenciled with lot numbers on a July 27 surrender manifest, vanish from every temperature log and the bonded warehouse’s inventory?In this episode, we follow the timeline from the August discovery through the paperwork trail and warehouse records to…
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