The great American cattle swindle
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Reporter Anna King got a call. |
| 0:03.0 | One of my farm sources told me Anna, you got to look at this, you got to look at it now. |
| 0:08.0 | I was kind of freaked out, I hadn't heard from this guy in a couple years. |
| 0:11.0 | We meet in the parking lot, we're in the headlights, he's on the hood of the car, |
| 0:15.0 | he's going through these documents and showing me what's going on. |
| 0:19.0 | And it was the start of the battle between Easter Day and Tyson. |
| 0:24.0 | Cody Easter Day was a wildly successful cattle rancher. |
| 0:28.0 | And foods was his biggest client. |
| 0:31.0 | I discovered that Cody Easter Day had stolen $244 million from Tyson and another company |
| 0:39.0 | and that he had used fake invoices to do that. |
| 0:44.0 | Coming up in today explained the story of a ghost herd, |
| 0:47.0 | how a cattle rancher in the Pacific Northwest made up a bunch of cows |
| 0:51.0 | and in doing so, scammed more than $200 million from his clients. |
| 0:55.0 | And what his story says about modern American farming. |
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