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SPOKANE – An elderly Wenatchee couple is getting their life back together after they were nearly bilked out of $290,399.73.

SPOKANE, WA - Senior United States District Judge William Fremming Nielsen today sentenced

Prosecutors said the Washington state rancher charged Tyson and another company for 265,000 head of nonexistent cattle

A cattle rancher in Washington sentenced to prison for defrauding Tyson Foods Inc. out of 244 mil charging victim companies for purported costs of feeding hundreds of thousands of cattle did not exist. Cody Allen Easterday 51 of Mesa, used his company, Easterday Ranches Inc.

An eastern Washington rancher has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a federal judge for a massive “ghost cattle” scam that defrauded Tyson Foods and another company out of more than $244 million. Cody Easterday of Mesa, Washington, was sentenced Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Yakima, Washington.

Cody Easterday was sentenced Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Yakima, Washington, for what U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Bastian called “the biggest theft or fraud I’ve seen in my career."

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- An eastern Washington rancher has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a federal judge for a massive "ghost cattle'' scam that

Defendant Sentenced in the Largest-Ever Criminal Fraud Scheme in the Eastern District of Washington

U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Bastian called the case "the biggest theft or fraud Ive seen in my career."

Defendant Sentenced in the Largest-Ever Criminal Fraud Scheme in the Eastern District of Washington