Wrecked #rain gauges. #Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a #Colorado crop #fraud got really crazy.

Source: https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jagers-ranchers-fraud-insurance/

Local farmers, authorities came to believe, were systematically destroying vital #weather data in order to falsely claim millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded crop #insurance, for a drought they made up.

#crime #agriculture #news #Problem #manipulation #usa

Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.

The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to tamper with rain gauges on the Colorado-Kansas plains to get millions in false insurance claims

^{Kevin Jeffers (The Colorado Sun)}