Don Doles is a former USDA-OIG special agent and Josh Howard is former federal prosecutor. Along with other federal agents, Dole investigated a multi-million crop insurance fraud scheme in eastern NC with over 60 defendants. Howard was the federal prosecutor on the investigation before he left to become a defense attorney with Gammon, Howard & Zeszotarski.
https://www.ghz-law.com/attorneys/josh-howard
In this episode, we discuss:
- How crop insurance fraud is committed
- How a multi million dollar fraud scheme was uncovered in Eastern NC
- The difficulties of prosecuting crop insurance fraud
- And how the crop insurance market is supposed to function.