{"id":16406,"date":"2025-12-10T01:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:10:23","slug":"2-year-prison-sentence-begins-for-disgraced-reality-tv-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=16406","title":{"rendered":"2-Year Prison Sentence Begins for Disgraced Reality TV Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The only drama this Bravo reality TV star will be seeing for the next two years is behind bars as he serves a two-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed, Steve McBee Sr. is trading in his cowboy boots for prison-issued canvas slippers. The 52-year-old star of The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys has officially begun his two-year stint at a federal prison in Yankton, South Dakota. According to PEOPLE, he was ordered to surrender by 2 p.m. on December 1 and turned himself in with a cool 30 minutes to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2024, McBee was sentenced to 24 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of federal crop insurance fraud. He was also ordered to pay $4,022,124 in restitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, the reality TV personality is holding out hope for a get-out-of-prison-early card\u2026 from the President himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been meeting with pardon attorneys,\u201d he recently told PEOPLE of his hope of President Donald Trump offering him a pardon. \u201cWe\u2019re putting everything together to fill out the application and turn everything in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve McBee Sr Sought Reality TV Star\u2019s Advice on Early Prison Release
Meanwhile, as he works on his pardon application, McBee said he has been receiving advice from fellow reality star Todd Chrisley, who was granted a full pardon in May while serving time for charges including bank fraud, tax fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had hours of conversation,\u201d McBee told the oulet in November. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t owe me anything, and he\u2019s texted me every other day, like, \u2018Checking on you, buddy. How are you feeling today? It\u2019s going to be okay. Everything\u2019s going to be all right. We\u2019re going to get through this. I\u2019m going to help you any way I can.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before entering prison, McBee spent Thanksgiving with his family on his ranch in Gallatin, Missouri. He, his ex-wife Kristi, and their four sons drove to Yankton together in a bus on November 30. McBee documented the trip on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only drama this Bravo reality TV star will be seeing for the next two years is behind bars as he serves a two-year prison sentence. Indeed, Steve McBee Sr. is trading in his cowboy boots for prison-issued canvas slippers. The 52-year-old star of The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys has officially begun his two-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1696],"tags":[1638,1639,1637,1605,1630],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-mcbee-dynasty","tag-exclusiveupdates","tag-fancommunity","tag-joinus","tag-mcbeefamily","tag-themcbeedynasty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16412,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}