The Ghost Cattle Banks Are Winning — Because the Con Man Ran the Companies

The Ghost Cattle Banks Are Winning — Because the Con Man Ran the Companies

In February, we told you about the strangest 20-mile radius in Kentucky: a Benton cattle farmer named Brian McClain who died by suicide in April 2023 as auditors discovered that nearly 80,000 of his cattle never existed; a bankruptcy trustee who accused four banks of enabling a Ponzi scheme that moved $2 billion through the companies’ accounts in five years; a private investigator telling a 400,000-view podcast the money trail leads to a Mexican…