Source: Steve Karnowski and Balint Szalai, WRAL, 7/2/19

When President Donald Trump's administration announced a $12 billion aid package for farmers struggling under the financial strain of his trade dispute with China, the payments were capped. But many large farming operations had no trouble finding legal ways around them, records provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act show. The government paid out nearly $2.8 million to a Missouri soybean-growing operation registered as three entities at the same address. 

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