How to Get Away With Murder in Columbia County

A woman is killed on a dark stretch of Route 9H. The drunk driver — a decorated war veteran — is charged but never prosecuted. Two powerful men, bound by war and Union College, use their control of the local press and legal system to bury the story. The victim's widower is silenced through the sale of a president's historic home to the National Park Service. Decades later, the truth spills out over lunch and too much wine. This is how things get fixed in Columbia County — and it's the historical backdrop to The Wine Wars, a series investigating a modern-day scandal where zoning laws are bent, a neighborhood is pushed to the brink, and a wealthy plastic surgeon sits at the center of it all. Columbia County's political DNA hasn't changed. The names just have.