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Zack Backs: Bets, Debts and Corruption

Inside the four-day economy that turned an Outer Banks bachelor party into a labor market, a casino, a counterfeiting crisis, and a legend.

By Ron Scandle · September 18–22, 2024

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Yellow collage artwork: black-and-white cutout portraits of seven men react around a central framed panel in which one man blocks the camera and another laughs holding a note, in front of a large engraved coin; the man at top left has a one-unit Zack Back held over his mouth.

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