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

is here,” Raymond said into the receiver. “One moment.”

He held the phone out to me, his hand covering the mouthpiece.

“It is the clerk from the bank’s records division,” he whispered. “The courier just left the branch with the certified escrow logs.”

The courier from the bank had a blue ink stamp on his palm, and he wiped it on his jeans before handing continue reading …