Part 2: The Swindle

Ghost Herd

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Part 2: The Swindle

JAN 17, 202322 MIN
Ghost Herd

Part 2: The Swindle

JAN 17, 202322 MIN

Description

Cowboy Cody Easterday lies big, creating a “ghost herd” of 265,000 cattle that only exist on paper and bringing in hundreds of millions of investment dollars from companies including a meat-packing giant. It’s fraud on a massive scale. We examine how he carried it out.

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