Lou Skrivara "Moldeth City doesn't forgive. It just forgets slower than you'd like."

Case file Lou Skrivara

"Moldeth City doesn't forgive. It just forgets slower than you'd like."

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Exhibit A

Moldeth City

Docket № Moldeth City / 1

Nino Partanna pours concrete by day and breaks things by night — fingers, doors, arrangements — for a Ratsapone captain who still believes the old code means something.

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Exhibit B

Cold Work

Docket № Moldeth City / 2

Freddy Stopiak took a bookkeeper, a ledger, and a bullet in the same week, and now he's holding all three inside a Council that would rather he'd died getting them.

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