Steven “Steve” McBee Sr. made his first appearance on season 2 of The McBee Dynasty — seven episodes in — after the patriarch remained largely offscreen whereas weathering an FBI investigation.
Within the center of the Monday, August 11, episode of the hit Bravo sequence, Steve regarded on the existing for the first time this season after reuniting with his sons in Nashville. Steven Jr., Jesse, Cole and Brayden were joined by Galyna Saltkovska, who previously dated their father sooner than he struck up a romance with her friend Masha.
“Seeing my dad for the first time [in a while] is clearly fabulous,” Jesse talked about in a confessional. “I miss him and I miss placing out with him.”
Steve revealed that he hadn’t viewed his sons “for months.”
Steve at the starting put performed a immense fair on the existing when season 1 aired on Peacock. The first season, which concluded in 2024, ended with McBee Farming Operations failing to precise a enterprise capital mortgage. This capability that, Steve chose to step away and left McBee Farm & Cattle to Steven Jr. to handle.
Season 2 moved to Bravo earlier this summer, and most of the McBee family persevered to movie. Steve, alternatively, was once missing for plenty of episodes sooner than Steven Jr. confirmed that his dad was once being investigated by the FBI.
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Paul Andrews/Peacock/Everett Assortment“We’ve leaned into family. We take it each day,” Steven Jr. completely told Us Weekly in July. “The subject is light ongoing. We’re hoping to get dangle of it wrapped up and get dangle of some finality to it sooner than the tip of the year. That’s the arrangement, appropriate so we will have the opportunity to circulate on and philosophize, ‘OK, we’ve got this figured out. We can open existence again now.’”
He added: “The exhausting phase about it is miles it’s so unknown. We don’t know what it’s going to peek cherish, so we’re making ready. We’re drinking dinner together as a family with my dad, in conjunction with my mom riding as a lot as the farm three to four nights a week, playing the time with the great infants. Precise no doubt cherishing time as a family because we don’t know what it’s going to peek cherish afterwards.”
Jesse recalled studying relating to the scandal on show. “It was once a shell shock appropriate seeing the burden that Steven had been [dealing with],” he shared with Us at the time. “It made plenty of things originate critical more sense, appropriate the model that Steven was once stressed and we were making an try to determine why we idea we knew all of his stresses, and clearly he was once retaining that in and bearing that weight on his shoulders.”
In November 2024, the U.S. Legal educated’s Administrative center Western District of Missouri announced in a press release that Steve was once charged with one depend of federal nick insurance fraud. Steve was once accused of constructing a pretend document to an insurance provider in 2018, where he underreported his “corn nick by approximately 674,812 bushels” and “his entire 2018 soybean nick by approximately 155,833 bushels,” per the DOJ.
Steve allegedly obtained better than $2.6 million in federal nick insurance advantages plus an extra $552,000 in federal nick insurance premium subsidies after offering the pretend numbers. He was once also accused of committing fraud in 2019 and 2020 when Steve allegedly misrepresented that his soybean flowers were “the first nick in positive fields” when he was once also the employ of the same whine to grow wheat.
That similar month, Steve pleaded guilty for his involvement in a multimillion-buck fraud rip-off the employ of federal nick insurance. Per the press release, Steve signed a plea deal where he agreed to pay restitution that would per chance be obvious by the courtroom. He waived his appropriate to a first-rate jury and is for the time being dealing with as a lot as 30 years in a federal detention center with out parole. His sentencing is slated for September.
The McBee Dynasty: Staunch American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
