Crop Insurance Abuse
October 3rd, 2006 | Published in Fed Data
Ken Foskett, Dan Chapman and Megan Clarke of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution used federal data to show that a federal farm official who oversees crop disaster aid also benefited from those programs: “[Duke] Lane’s businesses collected more from a federal disaster program than any other grower in America after he lobbied to relax its rules and increase payments. … Lane’s actions also cost taxpayers sharply higher payouts in Georgia. Growers here collected more than $7.4 million in disaster cleanup money from the 2004 storms because of the more generous payments engineered by Lane.”