:17:03
Give me three
ofthose lottery tickets.
:17:06
I'm feeling kinda lucky
all ofthe sudden.
:17:29
Somebody's fucking with me.
:17:33
These were bad guys.
:17:35
They owned a whole bunch
oflow-rent housing downtown.
:17:38
The building boom had started,
and they had a big offer to sell...
:17:41
but they couldn't
legally evict their tenants.
:17:44
So theywere doing
strong-arm stuff, intimidating.
:17:47
- There was even some arson involved.
- The march of progress.
:17:50
The housing inspectorwho should have
been on top ofthis- Skaggs-
:17:54
was taking payoffs.
:17:57
I had these two informants-
very Deep Throat.
:18:00
Meetings in parking garages,
the whole deal.
:18:03
And they give me the big lead.
:18:05
Now, this is criminal activity
that they're exposing.
:18:08
So I write the story. My editor, Mitch,
he trusts me enough to run with it.
:18:13
And they're willing
to testify in court?.
:18:15
They said yeah, ifit came to it.
But I didn't have 'em on tape.
:18:20
The landlord and the inspector
sue the paper...
:18:23
one of my sources blows town
and the other flat denies it.
:18:27
Big retraction,
settlement out of court...
:18:30
and I'm seriously fired.
:18:32
Worse, I'm the guy
who fabricates.
:18:39
From that day on...
:18:40
the Monitor concentrated on who bakes
the best chocolate chip cookie in Denver.
:18:46
And I couldn't get a job
delivering a newspaper.
:18:50
- The editor should've-
- He got fired too.
:18:53
He runs a- What doyou call it?.
A Web site.
:18:58
At leastyou did something.