Crop Insurance Fraud Case Settled

A Washburn, North Dakota farmer has accepted a plea agreement to settle allegations of crop insurance fraud. Kent Pfaff must pay more than $390,000 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release for providing false information to the Risk Management Agency. Pfaff is also not eligible to receive federal farm program benefits for five years. In 2019, Pfaff falsified his soybean yields to increase his crop insurance indemnity payments. Adjusters found the yields were four-to-five times larger than what was reported to the crop insurance company.