A Bartender Leaves a Briefcase: The Stelmar Tap Racket
A Bartender Leaves a Briefcase: The Stelmar Tap RacketA bartender left a dark brown leather briefcase on a drainage apron at 6:40 a.m. containing forty-three receipts that all showed totals of zero dollars - a paper trail that connected a neighborhood bar to a seventeen-year-long pattern of clandestine payments and municipal influence. How could one stack of no-dollar receipts expose a licensing official, a contractor’s shadow business, and a cold extortion case that began in 2007?In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning the briefcase was left through the interviews…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.