Feds Bust Up $100 Million NC Crop Insurance Fraud Ring

... Sasser said fraud is common in the crop insurance system, which offers limited ways for authorities to discover when loss estimates are exaggerated or falsified.

"I can tell you it's everywhere, all across the country," Sasser said Monday. "When you let the farmers keep up with their own production, they can put that production anywhere they want to. All the adjuster does is take what the farmer gives him to work the claim. What the farmer does before the adjuster gets there, the adjuster has no idea."

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Feds Bust Up $100 Million NC Crop Insurance Fraud Ring - WSPA-TV

Federal authorities in North Carolina have unraveled a massive criminal conspiracy they say defrauded $100 million from the government-backed program that insures farmers against crop losses.

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The ring filed false insurance claims for weather-related loses of tobacco, soybeans, wheat and corn. Often, the crops weren't damaged at all, with farmers later selling their written-off harvests under false aliases.

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