January 27, 2016
Posted February 1, 2016
Milton Russ Barnhill was sentenced to 11 years in prison for conspiring with others to defraud the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Farm Service Agency, both agencies of the United States, in connection with federal crop insurance claims and other federal taxpayer subsidies. As charged, Barnhill produced crops which he sold in the names of others which he then reported on insurance claims that the crops were lost due to natural disasters. He also placed crops and insurance policies into the names of conspirators to boost the amount of money he could collect on the insurance claims. DOJ (EDNC)
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