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When Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia
Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper
is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her
colleague Barbara Laker is too shocking to ignore: his career as a
confidential informant for a member of the Philadelphia Police
Department's narcotics squad has drawn him into a web of
corruption, and now Benny is afraid for his life. Busted is
Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their investigation into
the acts committed by powerful rogue members of the narcotics
squad. By dint of perseverance, ingenuity, and good old
shoe-leather reporting, the women unraveled a tapestry of lies.
Starting with the discovery of fabricated search warrants, they
soon find that the scandal encompasses a systematic looting of
immigrant-owned businesses and allegations of brutal sexual
assault. When Ruderman and Laker produce a devastating series of
articles that blows the lid off the scandal, they not only win the
fight for justice. They also win a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative
Reporting, an unthinkable triumph for two city reporters at a
beleaguered local paper.
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