The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Cody Easterday is the loser in this story he was all hat no cattle and now he's in jail. Who's the winner? It's not Tyson for sure but I think the people that bought the land that came out of this travesty are the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Huh but what are they going to do with the land? Well they're one of the largest farmers in America. They own massive swaths of farm ground up here. And it will only increase in value as our food, our security, climate change goes on.

A rancher in the Pacific Northwest scammed two companies out of $244 million. In this episode we first served in February, KUOW’s Anna King — host of the Ghost Herd podcast — explains how Cody Easterday went from ranching royalty to prison.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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