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The Dry-Cleaner Who Stole a Union's Retirement: The Green Folder Mystery

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The Dry-Cleaner Who Stole a Union's Retirement: The Green Folder Mystery

A dry-cleaner collected millions from a union fund for more than a decade while a green accordion folder with 41 pages and two mismatched ledgers sat bone dry behind a dumpster; how did $3.2 million vanish from roughly 460 workers’ retirement accounts without being noticed? What secret did the second column hide, and who finally paid attention?

In this episode, we tell how a fourteen-year-old found the folder that accelerated a federal probe and laid out the timeline from routine pension checks to missing money, tracing the roles of a volunteer consultant, an accounting clerk, and auditors as the central question: could the discovery in an alley change the outcome?

Person: Sarah Farrell
Date: April 9, 2004
Location: Alley behind Local 227 hall, near Harmon and Sixth, Dellmore
Amount: $3.2 million
People affected: roughly 460 union workers

- The folder contained 41 pages with two columns labeled "reported" and "actual."
- Charles Anderson was 14 when he found the folder on April 9, 2004.
- Dorothy Farrell reported pension checks short for three consecutive months before February 2004.
- Harmon Administrative Partners was paid $8,000 per month starting 1993 and charged management fees 91% above market across eleven transactions over four years.
- Paul Yeatts’ auditing firm certified the fund’s books for seven consecutive years while receiving fabricated vendor invoices of $22,000 annually starting in 1997.

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