Cody Easter day was a cattle rancher in South Dakota. He lost more than $30 million on the futures market between 2011 and 2020. His losses would have leveled most people just one year of his losses but he had more than a dozen years of losses. Cody made so many so many bets on the market that it's just astounding.
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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