 Harriman eventually had a dispute with Puter and fired him.Later, when a lumber company bookkeeper exposed the scheme to an "Oregonian" reporter; Puter turned on his former boss, testified against him, and wrote a scathing exposé about the scheme, while imprisoned, which would become chapters one through 25 of "", (with an additional six chapters written by journalist Horace Stevens).Initially, more than 1,000 indictments were issued in the case.