The McBee Dynasty brothers vowed to indicate “the nice, the unhealthy, the ugly” on their actuality present — together with their unfiltered reactions to dad Steve McBee's FBI investigation.
“It's actually, actually powerful as a result of that's always on the forefront of your thoughts, it doesn't matter what you're doing,” eldest son Steven McBee Jr. solely instructed Us Weekly of his dad's authorized troubles. “Even once I'm mendacity in mattress at night time, or even when I'm busy hanging out with my brothers out at a restaurant, you're at all times fascinated with that.”
Steven, the CEO of McBee Farm & Cattle, famous that followers will get to see how every brother realized about their dad's potential jail time after he stored it a secret for a while. The second oldest brother, Jesse McBee, for instance, heard in regards to the concern on digital camera.
“It was a shell shock simply seeing the burden that Steven had been [dealing with],” Jesse solely instructed Us on Thursday, July 11. “It made a number of issues make much more sense, simply the way in which that Steven was stressed and we have been making an attempt to determine why we thought we knew all of his stresses, and clearly he was holding that in and bearing that weight on his shoulders.”
Jesse defined, “It was a shell shock, and I believe you'll in all probability see that on digital camera, simply how shocked Cole [McBee] and I have been. Simply our reactions and mainly how we're going to maneuver ahead from it now.” (Steve shares sons Steven, Jesse, Cole and Brayden McBee with ex-wife Kristi McBee.)
After the cameras wrapped on season 1 of The McBee Dynasty: Actual American Cowboys, drama unfolded behind the scenes. Steve pleaded responsible to a multimillion-dollar fraud rip-off in November 2024 associated to crop insurance coverage.
Steve, who began McBee Farms within the ‘90s, was charged with one depend of federal crop insurance coverage fraud. He allegedly acquired insurance coverage advantages on his crops that he wasn't approved to obtain.
PEACOCK The McBee Dynasty star Steven “Steve” McBee has pleaded responsible to a multimillion-dollar fraud rip-off utilizing federal crop insurance coverage. In line with a November 5 press launch from the U.S. Legal professional's Workplace Western District of Missouri, McBee, 52, was charged with one depend of federal crop insurance coverage fraud. The McBee Farming Operations proprietor allegedly obtained […]
Steve allegedly made a false report back to insurance coverage supplier Rain and Hill in 2018, which led to him receiving greater than $2.6 million in federal crop insurance coverage advantages. The Division of Justice claimed that Steve dedicated further fraud in 2019 and 2020 for not disclosing that he selected to double crop in his soybean farms with wheat.
In line with season 2 of the Bravo sequence, Steve left the farm within the arms of his 4 sons — with Steven in cost alongside Steve's ex-girlfriend and CFO and COO Galyna Saltkosvska — whereas coping with the scandal off digital camera. Nevertheless, through the Monday, July 14, episode, Steven revealed that he was the one son who knew their dad was beneath investigation.
Steven McBee. Paul Andrews/Bravo
“My dad is beneath FBI investigation, and you're the just one, and my mother that even is aware of this is occurring. So, this has to remain between us,” Steven instructed Galyna through the episode.
Steven later instructed the cameras, “This FBI investigation is sporting on my dad. He didn't need something together with his involvement have an effect on[ing] any of us boys. My brothers don't even find out about it.”
Steve, for his half, is awaiting his sentencing after being ordered to pay restitution in November 2024. The precise quantity that he owes will probably be decided in court docket later this yr, as will his potential jail sentence — which could possibly be as much as 30 years.
Because the McBees wait to see what's subsequent for his or her dad, Steven and Jesse instructed Us they're specializing in the nice instances. One in all their current highs is the addition of two grandchildren: Jesse's daughter, Summer season, who was born in April, and Cole's daughter, Blair, born in December 2024.
“We've leaned into household. We take it day-to-day,” Steven instructed Us of their present mindset. “The state of affairs remains to be ongoing. We're hoping to have it wrapped up and have some finality to it earlier than the tip of the yr. That's the purpose, simply so we will transfer on and say, ‘OK, we've received this discovered. We will begin life once more now.'”
Steven famous they've turn out to be “nearer” as a household due to the authorized ordeal, confirming that having infants round has been a blessing.
Jesse McBee. Paul Andrews/Bravo
“The laborious half about it's it's so unknown. We don't know what it's going to seem like, so we're making ready,” Steven defined. “We're consuming dinner collectively as a household with my dad, together with my mother driving as much as the farm three to 4 nights per week, having fun with the time with the grand infants. Simply actually cherishing time as a household as a result of we don't know what it's going to seem like afterwards.”
Jesse added that their father was “an enormous household man” earlier than his authorized woes, however added that his dedication to his household has solely grown throughout this tumultuous time.
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He instructed Us that Steve is now targeted on controlling what he can, together with “spending time with household, being as shut as you possibly can with them and simply having fun with the little issues that he's labored his whole life.”
Steven concluded that the authorized battle, which is ready to be resolved in September, has given the entire household “a brand new degree of what's essential in life.”
He confessed, “[It's given us] a brand new precedence record of, ‘Hey, the companies. Yeah, we love the companies, however what's extra essential than that's spending time collectively as a household.' We've made the very best out of a very tough state of affairs.”
The McBee Dynasty: Actual American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
