Radio fans let me hear you. I want to know one thing Basin City is this a cowboy town.

Basin City is a cowboy town and as the song goes people wear their boots to

dinner drive their trucks to church.

It's plunked right in southeast Washington State. It's in the heavily farmed heart of what's called the Columbia Basin.

Looking at Google Maps, it looks like a patchwork quilt.

It has green squares and circles and

odd shapes all stitched together with roads forming a grid.

Desert sand fills in the rest.

Basin City is the hometown seat of the yesterday Empire,

with Cody Easter Day at the rains.

He's a handshake deal guy.

He always struck me as a very solid individual.

You know, he was not misleading, he was not arrogant,

very trustworthy in any kind of the dealings I'd ever had.

I've always been able to walk right up and say hi and...

Smile in a handshake.

Yeah.

For years, Cody had the appearance of an honest dealer.

Cody is probably a genius in some ways. Yeah.

There's community supporters.

But Cody has a dark secret, one that leveraged his family empire's ironclad reputation.

The cowboy scammed a global food corporation in another company out of

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