Los Angeles Watchdog Group Tracks Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in City Contracts

a payment for my silence.

I looked at the gold foil seal again.

Who notarized the backdated contract draft?

The name of the notary was stamped in small, faint letters at the bottom of the circle.

It read Gloria Ward, a name I did not recognize at the time, though it stayed in the back of my mind as I locked the office door.

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