McBee Dynasty star Steven McBee Sr.’s sentencing has been delayed for a fourth time after pleading guilty to his role in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
McBee Sr., 52, was originally set to be sentenced in March. After the date was rescheduled to June and later September, a new date — October 16 — was revealed earlier this month.
According to a recent update in the case, McBee Sr. has been ordered to relinquish three of his designer watches while he awaits sentencing. People reported on Thursday, September 4, that the watches include one Tag Heuer Formula 1 watch, a Tag Heuer Grand Carrera watch and a Rolex Daytona watch, which are “substitute assets in partial satisfaction of the money judgement” he still owes.
The order cited a U.S. code that allows a court to seek forfeiture “of all property, real and personal, constituting, or derived from, proceeds traceable to the offenses, directly or indirectly, as a result of the violations alleged.” The filing noted that “The United States has located assets belonging to the defendant Steve A. McBee that were not directly obtained through the offenses alleged in the Information.”
In November 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri announced in a press release that McBee Sr. was charged with one count of federal crop insurance fraud. McBee Sr. was accused of making a false report to an insurance provider in 2018, where he underreported his “corn crop by approximately 674,812 bushels” and “his total 2018 soybean crop by approximately 155,833 bushels,” per the DOJ.
McBee Sr. allegedly received more than $2.6 million in federal crop insurance benefits plus an additional $552,000 in federal crop insurance premium subsidies after providing the false numbers. He was also accused of committing fraud in 2019 and 2020 when McBee Sr. allegedly misrepresented that his soybean crops were “the first crop in certain fields” when he was also using the same space to grow wheat.
That same month, McBee Sr. pleaded guilty for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scam using federal crop insurance. According to the press release, McBee Sr. signed a plea deal where he agreed to pay restitution that will be determined by the court. He waived his right to a grand jury and is currently facing up to 30 years in a federal prison without parole.
McBee Sr. was introduced to Us on The McBee Dynasty, where he played a large role when season 1 aired on Peacock. The first season, which concluded in 2024, focused on McBee Farming Operations, which McBee Sr ran with help from his family.
After failing to secure a venture capital loan in season 1, McBee Sr. chose to step away and left McBee Farm & Cattle to Steven McBee Jr. to handle.
Season 2 moved to Bravo earlier this summer, and most of the McBee family continued to film. Steve, however, was missing for several episodes before Steven Jr. confirmed that his dad was being investigated by the FBI.
“We’ve leaned into family. We take it day by day,” Steven Jr. exclusively told Us Weekly in July. “The situation is still ongoing. We’re hoping to have it wrapped up and have some finality to it before the end of the year. That’s the goal, just so we can move on and say, ‘OK, we’ve got this figured out. We can start life again now.’”
He added: “The hard part about it is it’s so unknown. We don’t know what it’s going to look like, so we’re preparing. We’re eating dinner together as a family with my dad, including my mom driving up to the farm three to four nights a week, enjoying the time with the grand babies. Just really cherishing time as a family because we don’t know what it’s going to look like afterwards.”
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
