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Ronnie Jolly, a farmer from Paris, Kentucky, has been charged with crop insurance fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering-related offenses.
A federal grand jury in Lexington returned the indictment charging Jolly with one count of conspiring to violate federal law, six counts of making false statements to influence the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (“FCIC”) and companies reinsured by the FCIC, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 21 counts of money laundering, and one count of structuring currency transactions to avoid reporting requirements.
|Hid crop production from insurer
The indictment alleged that Jolly, an agricultural producer of tobacco, corn, and soybeans in Bath, Bourbon, Fleming, Montgomery, and Scott Counties, hid his crop production from his insurance company to claim damage to his crop sufficient to trigger crop insurance indemnity payments, which are funded by the federal government through the FCIC.
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