McBee Dynasty star Steve McBee Sr. has officially reunited with his famous family following his release from prison.
“A little more appreciation for the simple things in life….Thank you Lord for all the blessings in my life,” Steve Sr., 53, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 12, alongside a video of him returning to his farm in Gallatin, Missouri.
His son Steven McBee Jr. commented, “Best 24 hours we’ve had in a long, long time. So many good memories to make and time to have together as a COMPLETE family!”
Steven Jr., 33, originally shared the news on Friday, September 11, that his dad had been released from custody as he posted a clip of the patriarch meeting up with his grandchildren.
Steve McBee Sr. with Tate Courtesy Instagram / Cole McBee
Cole McBee welcomed his dad home by posting a photo of Steve Sr. holding his baby granddaughter Tate, who arrived in August.
“So blessed to have the family back together,” Cole, 27, wrote alongside the photo. “Dad and Tate have officially got to meet now.”
The Justice Department announced in November 2024 that Steve Sr. “pleaded guilty in federal court today to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits he was not entitled to receive.” The reality star confessed to selling “more than 1.2 million bushels of corn and nearly 416,000 bushels of soybeans” to another party in 2018, per the Justice Department.
Steve Sr.’s plea deal required him to pay more than $4 million in restitution, in addition to forfeiting $3,158,923 to the government.
While he was eligible for as much as 30 years in federal prison without parole, a judge sentenced Steve Sr. to two years behind bars in October 2025. He began serving his sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota, last December. (Steven Jr. ultimately served less than a year of his sentence in federal custody.)
Steven Jr. exclusively opened up to Us in July about how his father was coping with life behind bars.
The McBee Dynasty’s Steven McBee Jr. got a little teary-eyed while sharing a holiday update from his dad, Steven “Steve” McBee Sr., who is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for crop insurance fraud. “I talked to my dad last night. He wanted to make sure that we posted a video saying Merry Christmas to […]
“Thankfully, we’re down to less than two months now before he gets out … [He was] able to get into a program that allows him to cut down on the time served,” Steven Jr. confirmed to Us. “He’ll be under home confinement for four to six months, but he gets out early.”
In the weeks leading up to his release, Steve Sr.’s family documented renovating his lodge and office as a surprise for their patriarch.
“Got my old man a list of some of my favorite reads (about 20 more coming in tomorrow),” Steven Jr. recently wrote via Instagram as he dropped off a pile of books. “Big believer that reading is single-handedly one of the best things you can do to immediately improve your life and outlook/mindset.”
Steve Sr.’s legal drama played out across the second and third seasons of Bravo’s The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys, where viewers watched him turn over the running of McBee Farm & Cattle Co to his sons.
Before surrendering to prison, Steve Sr. joked on Todd Chrisley’s podcast that he was thinking about his prison sentence as if he was “going on [his] sabbatical.”
The McBee Dynasty star explained that he’d agreed to “plea out to giving one count of a fraudulent statement — not that we committed fraud” to prevent investigators from looking into his son Steven Jr.
“[I decided] OK, get my son off of this. Get all my other people off of it. Get all the other companies [off],” Steve Sr. recalled. “At the end of the day, the buck stops with me. I take that accountability and responsibility.”
He added, “I said, ‘No one else is owning this but me.’ It’s just so crazy it was based on a clerical issue.”
