Where’s the beef?

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A rancher in the Pacific Northwest scammed two companies out of $244 million. In this episode we first served in February, KUOW’s Anna King — host of the Ghost Herd podcast — explains how Cody Easterday went from ranching royalty to prison. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.
0:06.6	You got to look at it now.
0:08.0	I was kind of freaked out.
0:09.2	I hadn't heard from this guy in a couple of years.
0:11.4	We meet in the parking lot.
0:12.9	We're in the headlights.
0:14.0	He's on the hood of the car.
0:15.2	He's going through these documents and showing me
0:17.7	what's going on.
0:18.8	And it was the start of the battle between Easter Day and Tyson.
0:23.8	Cody Easter Day was a wildly successful cattle rancher.
0:27.4	Tyson Foods was his biggest client.
0:30.5	I discovered that Cody Easter Day had stolen $244 million
0:37.0	from Tyson and another company and that he had used fake invoices
0:42.5	to do that.
0:43.4	Coming up in today explained the story of a ghost herd,
0:46.9	how a cattle rancher in the Pacific Northwest made up a bunch
0:50.0	of cows and in doing so, scammed more than $200 million
0:54.2	from his clients.
0:55.2	And what his story says about modern American farming.
0:59.5	Support for today explained comes from Into the Mix,
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