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     Andhravodu Kurra Bewarse Username: Andhravodu Post Number: 2291 Registered: 04-2017 Posted From: 71.76.73.86 Rating: N/A |
https://nypost.com/2019/08/21/farmer-kills-himself-to-avoid-prison-for-massive-o rganic-food-scam/ A farmer who masterminded a $142 million organic-food scam — and spent his ill-gotten gains on escorts and gambling in Las Vegas — killed himself after being sentenced to 10-plus years in prison. ... Between 2010 and 2017, Constant sold more than 11.5 million bushels of grain more than 90 percent of which he falsely claimed was grown on certified organic fields in Nebraska and Missouri. During 2016, his crooked sales equaled about 7 percent of all organic corn and about 8 percent of all organic soybeans grown in the US, prosecutors said. The grain was mainly used as feed for cattle and chickens to produce premium-priced meat and eggs that were marketed as organic, with federal Judge C.J. Williams saying Constant did “extreme and incalculable damage” by ripping off consumers and damaging faith in the organic-food industry. While pulling off his scam, Constant traveled more than 20 times to Las Vegas, where he stayed in hotels, hired escorts and gambled, prosecutors said. |