The Ledger on the Pole: $2.3M Hidden in Small-Town Trust
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The Ledger on the Pole: $2.3M Hidden in Small-Town Trust
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A spiral-bound ledger sealed in a waterproof sleeve was found eight feet up on a utility pole in Portwick, documenting $2.3 million in transactions that matched no official record of the Teamsters Local 714 Retirement Security Trust-so who walked alone in the dark to zip-tie evidence to a streetlight? What made a small-town ledger worth hiding outdoors rather than handing to anyone inside the institutions people trusted?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries and the people connected to the trust: the elected president, the appointed administrator, an executive director whose goodwill protected the scheme, and a young administrative assistant who began keeping secret notes. We trace how routine civic trust and two sets of books allowed $2.3 million to disappear, and ask how one notebook and one ledger forced the question of who could be trusted.
Person: Melvin Carlson
Person: Curtis Sullivan
Person: Roy Basset
Person: Darlene Perry
Event: Ledger found on April 9, 2004
- The ledger was fastened with black nylon cable ties eight feet above the sidewalk on the east side of Portwick.
- The ledger contained handwritten entries documenting $2.3 million in transactions not matching the Teamsters Local 714 Retirement Security Trust records.
- Roy Basset had borrowed money from Curtis Sullivan in 1991 and later was appointed to administer the fund despite lacking actuarial credentials.
- Beginning in 1997, Howard Pell received $1,200 per month in cash, delivered by Dennis Kowalski in rotating locations and on varying days.
- Darlene Perry began keeping a small spiral-bound notebook in spring 2002 and made a photocopy of a Crestline Advisory Services bank statement during Roy Basset’s lunch hour.
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