‘McBee Dynasty’ star Steven McBee Sr. sentenced to 2 years for fraud scheme

“McBee Dynasty: Actual American Cowboys” star Steven McBee Sr. was sentenced to 2 years in jail after pleading responsible to a multimillion-dollar crop insurance coverage fraud scheme.

Throughout a sentencing listening to on Thursday, October 16, McBee was additionally sentenced to a further two years of supervised launch as soon as he completes his jail sentence, and will likely be required to pay $4,022,124 in restitution to the USDA Danger Administration Company, per People.

In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by Folks, McBee was ordered to forfeit “all property, each actual and private, constituting or derived from the proceeds instantly or not directly attributable to the violations, instantly or not directly, because of the alleged violations” in September. Among the many returned objects are three designer watches: a Tag Heuer System 1 watch, a Tag Heuer Grand Carrera watch and a Rolex Daytona.

The 52-year-old actuality star has till December 1, 2025 at 2 p.m. to give up to the Federal Jail Camp in Yankton, South Dakota.

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“McBee Dynasty” star Steven McBee Sr. was sentenced to 2 years in jail. (Paul Andrews/PEACOCK through Getty Pictures)

Following his sentencing, McBee took to his Instagram Tales on Friday to thank his followers for his or her nicely needs. Within the submit, he shared a textual content message he acquired from a buddy, letting him know that they’re praying for him and that they’re there for him if he wants them.

“The variety of messages I’ve acquired touches my coronary heart greater than phrases can specific. However the reality is that I’m the fortunate one. I’m lucky to have been in a position to spend time with so many younger individuals of excessive character, they usually have been those who made me a greater individual, and never the opposite manner round.” McBee wrote subsequent to the screenshot.

He continued, “I depend my blessings day-after-day for my household and the assist they provide me, and for my prolonged household who proceed to develop day-after-day. This too shall go…’

In keeping with a press launch from the Ministry of JusticeIn November 2024, McBee pleaded responsible to 1 depend of federal crop insurance coverage fraud, admitting that he “engaged in fraudulent exercise from 2018 to 2020 that prompted an financial loss to america Division of Agriculture.”

McBee confronted a jail sentence of thirty years. (Paul Andrews/PEACOCK through Getty Pictures)

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Earlier than sentencing on Thursday, McBee confronted a most sentence of 30 years in jail, with prosecutors recommending 41 months in jail and three years of supervision.

“McBee submitted fraudulent paperwork to Rain and Hail underreporting his complete 2018 corn crop by roughly 674,812 bushels and underreporting his complete 2018 soybean crop by roughly 155,833 bushels,” the press launch mentioned. “Because of these false experiences, McBee acquired $2,605,943 in federal crop insurance coverage advantages to which he was not entitled, in addition to $552,980 in federal crop insurance coverage premium subsidies to which he was not entitled, for a complete of $3,158,923.”

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Information of the conviction comes simply sooner or later after Bravo introduced that they’ve renewed the sequence for a 3rd season.

The present first premiered in 2024 on Peacock and USA Community earlier than Bravo picked it up for its second season. The present focuses on the McBee household as they work collectively to construct McBee Farm & Cattle Co. to run a household farm and cattle ranch.

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The truth present focuses on the McBee household as they run their household enterprise. (Emerson Miller/PEACOCK through Getty Pictures)

Chatting with Fox Information Digital in June 2024, McBee mentioned the recognition of the tv present “Yellowstone” created a “need” for the cowboy life-style.

“So I do not even care if you happen to’re an analyst for a hedge fund on Wall Avenue. You see a ‘Yellowstone’ and you’ve got a need inside you. ‘I wish to sit on a horse’ or ‘I wish to drive a tractor and lift the crop,'” McBee mentioned.

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