Heating Oil: Cheated and Poisoned

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 22, 2013

New York Times reporter William Rashbaum talks about the investigation into whether tens of thousands of New York customers were cheated by the dilution of heating oil with hazardous waste oil.

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