Ghost cattle fraud
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ghost-cattle-fraud-237-2209824
title:
Ghost cattle fraud
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The "ghost cattle" or "ghost herd" fraud was a scheme perpetrated by Cody Easterday, a rancher in Mesa, Washington, to charge Tyson Foods for more than 200,000 cattle that did not exist. From 2016 until 2020, when Tyson discovered the missing cattle, Easterday submitted invoices totalling more than $200 million. Easterday was charged in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Easterday confessed to the deception in November, 2020, and later pled guilty to one count of wir
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Fraud scheme in Washington, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_cattle_fraud
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2024-02-08T17:51:03Z
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