Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.
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Storm clouds roil in this time-lapse video taken over Baca County in southeastern Colorado, where rain is scarce and where for years a criminal enterprise damaged rain gauges to fool the federal government into thinking drought was even worse than it was.
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What happened
Storm clouds roil in this time-lapse video taken over Baca County in southeastern Colorado, where rain is scarce and where for years a criminal enterprise damaged rain gauges to fool the federal government into thinking drought was even worse than it was.
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