CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Parma man was sentenced on Tuesday to prison on federal charges involving farm subsidy and crop insurance fraud.
Bobby David Lowrey, 49, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on multiple charges involving federal crop insurance fraud, theft of government property and wire fraud. He appeared for sentencing before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. in Cape Girardeau.
According to court documents, Lowrey owned and operated farms and related businesses in Parma in New Madrid County, including Bobby David Lowrey Farms, Lowrey and Lowrey, Inc. of Parma, John Radin Farms and Kathy Ellsworth Farms.
Lowrey placed farms in other people's names in order to obtain federal farm subsidy payments that he was not entitled to receive under the Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program.
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