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On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members, donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states.

A journey into the dark heart of corporate Australia. Join corporate governance expert Dr Andrew Schmulow and award winning investigative journalist Anthony Klan as they lay bare the systemic cronyism and corruption that is modern professional Australia.