Shakedown in St. Louis.

The article features Carl Baldwin, a Plain Dealer's reporter for the "St. Louis Dispatch," and describes his work exposing fixers in the city. It states that when the U.S. Air Force received no bids for construction on its Scott Air Force Base, the paper's editor wanted to find out why. Baldwin discovered that contractors were unable to afford the pay-off required by fixers, and that those who tried to resist them were harassed. Baldwin's exposes opened official investigations into the matter, leading to over 50 indictments and ongoing investigations.