Imprisoned cattleman Easterday seeks leniency from Trump

Imprisoned Washington cattleman and farmer Cody Easterday has applied for clemency, seeking leniency from President Trump while serving time for defrauding Tyson Foods and another victim out of $244 million. Easterday, 55, has submitted a clemency application to the Office of Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department. Applications are not publicly available. Once head of a family farming empire in southeast Washington, Easterday was sentenced in 2022 to 11 years in prison for bilking Tyson out of $233 million and Segale Properties, a Tukwila, Wash., real estate company out of $11 million. The sentence was later reduced to 8 years and 9 months because of a change in federal sentencing guidelines. He also was ordered to pay restitution. Easterday is scheduled to be released May 31, 2028. He is serving his sentence under the supervision of the federal reentry management field office in Seattle. Efforts to contact his attorney were unsuccessful.

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