Finneys WPA Racket
WPA official Davidson extorts kickbacks from men desperate for relief jobs, while politician Finney discovers the scheme and demands a fifty-percent cut. When anonymous Sentinel informant Meekon is murdered to…
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WPA official Davidson extorts kickbacks from men desperate for relief jobs, while politician Finney discovers the scheme and demands a fifty-percent cut. When anonymous Sentinel informant Meekon is murdered to…
Court official Cole decides to expose Robertson's racket of forcing state court employees to kick back part of their salaries, but Robertson intercepts him before he can reach the Sentinel.…
The Green Hornet targets a fraudulent insurance-advice racket that charges victims for information they could obtain freely, while the gang claims to know the Hornet's secret identity.
The Green Hornet attacks Robertson’s gasoline racket after a train wreck is used to shift blame onto the masked vigilante.
The Green Hornet targets a racket that uses stand-ins to cheat citizenship exams, then blackmails vulnerable immigrants with the fraud the racket itself arranged.
The Green Hornet goes after Grafton’s child-labor scheme, which exploits children by putting them on the streets selling handkerchiefs.
A political fixer named Michael uses his influence over the parole board to release men for a racket controlled by businessman Leggett. When one of the paroled men becomes dangerous,…
The Green Hornet uncovers a property-tax-office check-kiting scheme after corrupt supervisors frame an innocent employee for their theft.
A trust-fund scheme turns deadly when Palmer and his partner Michael murder Grayson and try to keep the stolen money and blame away from themselves. The Green Hornet plays the…
Political appointees Johnson and Leggett turn General Hospital purchasing into a kickback racket, taking money from supplier Robertson while Dr. Wakefield is threatened and pushed out for opposing them. The…
A ring of professional claimants stages pedestrian accidents, throwing themselves in front of cars and using crooked legal help to collect damages from frightened motorists. The Sentinel's investigation draws retaliation,…
A corrupt politician decides to confess and expose his associates when he realizes his own son is following the same criminal path.
A so-called writers' bureau flatters amateur authors, charges them fees for 'polishing' manuscripts and guarantees publication only by printing tiny excerpts in its own magazine. After Axford is taken in,…
Crandall, a witness who can expose a murder ring, is being hidden by a rival newspaper while an imported gunman searches for him. The Green Hornet traces both sides to…
The Green Hornet pursues evidence that the state sales-tax commissioner has cooked the books and diverted a large sum from public funds.
The Green Hornet takes on politician Finney and a graft scheme exploiting the W.P.A., using the murder case to expose the corruption behind the racket.
The Daily Sentinel and the Green Hornet expose the head of a mental hospital who has turned the institution into a source of state-treasury graft.
Police chief Ritter boasts that organized gambling has been wiped out, but the Sentinel suspects he is protecting Frankie's reopened gambling operation. The Green Hornet engineers a smoke-and-fire alarm that…
Neighborhood druggist Ferris is threatened into joining Mr. Big's Big Four racket. The Green Hornet removes Ferris before the gang can act against him and uses the resulting search to…
When the Sentinel checks on families it helped the previous Christmas, Britt notices a disturbing pattern: several households are suddenly comfortable, and in every case the husband has gone to…
The Green Hornet fights a vote-buying and election-fraud operation in an effort to keep a local election honest.
A highway corruption scheme escalates to murder, leading the Green Hornet to expose the politician profiting from the graft.
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