New climate finance scam just dropped: Colorado ranchers scam index-based drought insurance for $3M by putting pie tins over rain gauges. HT @bryanwx.bsky.social
Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought co...
The world is full of destructive a-holes.
Look I am a reasonable man who is rightfully skeptical of the state use of violence but also put these folks in the stocks in the village square and let ill-tempered children throw things at them.
Good heavens! The corruption and decadence of American society!
Crazy story… if there aren’t any bad actors in the California Central Valley, I’d be shocked.
Had absolutely no idea this was even a thing 😳 but now that I think about it, of course it is
Arghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
That will teach them not to steal from rich people I wonder if they did wage theft on farm workers?
That escalated quickly. We went from scamming federal crop insurance to a prison escape and manhunt?? Sheesh.
Another report on this. coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/p...
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