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Farmers, business owner admit guilt in 'pervasive and severe' crop fraud scheme in KY
A business owner has admitted helping facilitate a widespread crop insurance fraud scheme in Central Kentucky.
Roger Wilson, 88, former operator of Clay’s Tobacco Warehouse in Mount Sterling, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Lexington to a charge of conspiring to commit insurance fraud.
Five farmers also pleaded guilty in the case in recent days, joining more than a dozen people convicted earlier.
The investigation has shown “pervasive and severe” abuse of the federal crop-insurance program, prosecutors said in one court document.
Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article251319128.html
Prosecutors have agreed to recommend a two-year sentence for Wilson.