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The defendant, Debra Muse, was a crop insurance agent and a seasonal worker at Clay's Tobacco Warehouse in Mount Sterling. Part of her job as a seasonal worker was to record info on a computer program that tracks tobacco purchases, sales and shipment. The alleged scam worked like this: As an insurance agent, Muse obtained crop insurance for the farmers. Then as a warehouse worker, she didn't record the sale of some tobacco. The farmers filed false insurance claims saying the tobacco had been lost to bad weather, then collected insurance payouts.
The indictment says that the co-conspiring farmers (who are not named or charged in the indictment) "profited under the scheme because they were paid twice for each pound of tobacco: once through the false crop insurance claim, and also through the sale of the unreported hidden tobacco." The indictment says that "Muse profited by collecting the original insurance commission and by retaining and expanding the business of her crop insurance clients and securing business for her employer, Clay’s Tobacco Warehouse," Kocher reports. According to the indictment, she caused three different growers to be awarded payments for $6,144; $23,651; and $139,
456 for claims. The burden of paying out these claims is mostly on taxpayers
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