Ghost Herd

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Easterdays drew a lot of water in southeast Washington. Cody Easterday was a titan of agriculture who provided Tyson food with two percent of its beef. But a series of bad investments and commodities speculation put the rancher in a desperate financial position. Easterday engineered a quarter-billion dollar hoax: tricking Tyson into paying for the upkeep of cattle that only existed on paper. When the hoax was discovered it disrupted the food supply and threatened the farming empire the community depended on. KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio and Northwest Public Broadcasting present “Ghost Herd.” Host Anna King plows into the livestock swindle, as well as shines a light on the precarious nature of farming and the food supply in modern America

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0:00.0	For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:06.6	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Raiders On.
0:13.3	Crime Raiders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:26.8	how culture, other podcasts, and on this episode, it was the biggest and most expensive
0:32.2	modern day cattle wrestling.
0:34.8	But those missing steer never existed.
0:37.6	Where we review the podcast, ghost herd.
0:40.4	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of
0:45.0	these other stories podcasts.
0:46.7	My husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:48.9	Hi Kevin.
0:49.9	I'm Rebecca, I'm still wiped out from that wonderful Valentine's Day we had.
0:53.9	Oh my god, yes.
0:54.9	To get a shot of vitamin B.
0:55.9	I'm still so tired from the Super Bowl.
0:59.0	Oh, what happened on your Valentine's Day?
1:01.3	I'm dying to know.
1:02.3	Everything happened.
1:03.3	Oh, oh my.
1:04.3	And all of it.
1:05.3	And that pomponousick mill's bed under the clothes stuff over the clothes stuff.
1:10.8	You know what our you know what our favorite sexual position is back to back.
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