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Cody Easterday has been sent to a remote prison camp to serve time for fraud, but has asked to be moved to a Southern California lockup that has farm and

Cody Easterday has been sent to a remote prison camp to serve time for fraud, but has asked to be moved to a Southern California lockup that has farm and

Rancher Cody Easterday, age 51, received a sentence for 10 to 12 and a half years on Oct. 4 in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington for his $244 million fraud perpetrated against meat-packing giant Tyson and Washington state development and investment firm Segale Properties. The quarter-billion-dollar fraud triggered the Chapter 11 liquidation of both ...

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."

An eastern Washington rancher tied to a massive fraud scheme involving cattle that didn’t exist will serve 11 years in federal prison. The sentence handed

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

The rancher, from Washington, pleaded guilty to the charges last year, which included defrauding Tyson Foods and another company.