Crop Insurance Fraud – Don Doles and Josh Howard

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:

  1. How crop insurance fraud is committed
  2. How a multi million dollar fraud scheme was uncovered in Eastern NC
  3. The difficulties of prosecuting crop insurance fraud
  4. And how the crop insurance market is supposed to function.