10+ Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to be True

In 1992, an executive at ADM told the FBI something wild: his company and its rivals were secretly meeting to fix the price of lysine, a feed additive for pigs and chickens. Agents weren’t sure they could trust him. So they gave him a tape recorder.

Mark Whitacre secretly taped years of meetings, catching rivals openly agreeing on prices and dividing up the market. ADM paid a record $100 million fine, and top executives went to prison. The twist? Whitacre went too, for stealing millions from ADM while working with the FBI.