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How A Nonexistent Bar Unraveled A California Bribery Case

By Craig Clough ( August 11, 2025, 8:55 PM EDT) -- The criminal case against Palm Springs, California, developer John Wessman hinged on a cooperating witness's testimony that Wessman slung an arm around him at bar called "Bar" and hatched a plan to bribe the city's then-mayor, but there was just one problem with that story....

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