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Pro tip: Never trust a man who talks about his “smoking hot mom.”
Cody Easterday is a piece of work, as you undoubtedly know if you read Senior Editor Mark Friedman’s front-page article last week. Easterday is the 49-year-old rancher from southeast Washington who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding Tyson Foods Inc. of $233 million and an unidentified company of $11 million.
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To be fair, it wasn’t until his father died on Dec. 10 a few days after he confessed his scheme to Tyson executives that Easterday shared a decades-old photo of his parents on Twitter and described his mother as “smoking hot.” By then, Tyson executives were grappling with the fact that they had, over a period of years, paid hundreds of millions of dollars for cattle that didn’t exist and nonexistent feed to fatten them up. And that Easterday, in his words, “had pissed it away” trading
Send Misplaced trust is a common theme in the fraud cases I ve observed over the past two decades, as is the failure to make simple, routine checks.
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