Washington rancher Easterday pleads guilty, agrees to pay $244M over nonexistent cattle
Cody Easterday’s scheme to defraud two companies, including Tyson Fresh Meats, began in 2016 and was created to cover more than $200 million in trading losses.
Credit: Shannon Dininny Author: Charles H. Featherstone (Columbia Basin Herald) Published: 10:28 AM PDT April 1, 2021 Updated: 10:28 AM PDT April 1, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. Cody Easterday pleaded guilty in federal court late Wednesday to defrauding two companies, including Tyson Foods subsidiary Tyson Fresh Meats, of $244 million by charging the companies for the care and feeding of cattle that did not exist, as reported by KREM 2 News partner the Columbia Basin Herald.
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A Texas construction company owner and a disabled veteran have pleaded guilty to a conspiracy that garnered $250 million in federal contracts set aside for small businesses owned by disabled veterans, according to the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
Michael Wibracht, former owner of several construction businesses in San Antonio, pleaded guilty March 5 to one count of felony conspiring to commit wire fraud and defraud the United States.
Wibracht and other co-conspirators installed Ruben Villarreal, a disabled veteran in San Antonio, as the owner of a construction firm, and it was registered with the U.S. Small Business Administration as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).
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Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS DOJ
WASHINGTON – An Illinois man was sentenced March 3 2021 to 12 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, a foreign terrorist organization (aka ISIS).
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