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.