Potato-gate: When politics, business and a 'flamboyant' con man mixed in the 1980s

Part 1: How a secretive potato deal with Honduras shook North Dakota, sent two people to prison, forced the Honduran Army to collect a debt and made state leaders look like a "bunch of idiots."

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