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Ian MacDougall
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Contributor, Freelance
New York
Beats
Blackness, literature,Refugees race, politics, Caribbean music Caribbean culture, displacement, Black history Caribbean art, identity, the Global South
Lifestyle
Content
By Ian MacDougall| The Atlantic Verified The bid-rigging scheme was a classic of the genre. A small Rust Belt city needed new garbage trucks. Its mayor and two of his donors needed money. The mayor, a struggling mortgage lender, owed years’ worth of back taxes; the donors were two brothers desperate to save the truck dealership they’d spent the past few years running into the ground. So the mayor fixed things to steer the garbage-truck contracts to the brothers, a million-dollar cushion under their failing dealership.
By Ian MacDougall| Reader Supported News@ A Republican state lawmaker devised a bribery scheme that ended in a trial and a death — and showed why corruption has become harder to prosecute. Back in Ohio, Neil Clark went by many names: “most powerful lobbyist in Ohio,” “bully,” “superlobbyist,” “godfather of lobbyists.” Clark blamed his “dark Sicilian features and demeanor” for the last epithet, though it might also have had something to do with his fondness for Al Capone and the fact that his father was a soldier for the Cleveland Mafia.
By Ian MacDougall| The Atlantic Verified The bid-rigging scheme was a classic of the genre. A small Rust Belt city needed new garbage trucks. Its mayor and two of his donors needed money. The mayor, a struggling mortgage lender, owed years’ worth of back taxes; the donors were two brothers desperate to save the truck dealership they’d spent the past few years running into the ground. So the mayor fixed things to steer the garbage-truck contracts to the brothers, a million-dollar cushion under their failing dealership.
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Freelance
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