Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display OCR: US Sues Four Colorado Farmers for False Claims Page 81 DC, 1-6/US Newswire: The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against 4 farmers, alleging they defrauded the Dept of Agriculture by submitting false claims for payments to the Commodity Credit Corporation. Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Gerson, head of the Civil Division, said the complaint was filed in US District Court in Lincoln, NE, against Larry Bond of Joes, CO; Kent Crawford of Eaton, CO; & Jack Bond & Randy Bond, both of Greeley, CO The complaint alleged that the defendants made false statements to CCC for program payments from at least 1985 through '87 while enrolled in a crop subsidy program admin'ed by the Agricultural Stablization & Conservation Service. The defendants received $815, 116 in payments, of which at least $500, 000 they weren't entitled to. According to the complaint, the defendants in signing contracts to receive payments, represented themselves as separate entities as defined by the program & were therefore entitled to individual payments. The government said the claims by Bond, Bond & Crawford each individual financed his own farming operation were false because Jack Bond financed portions of the costs of farming the land for which they received payments & that Larry & Randy Bond & Crawford did not own their own equipment as they claimed. The complaint said CCC paid an inflated amount for the program payments by relying on the defendants' misrepresentations.
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