A Taylor County man has been sentenced to federal prison for crop insurance fraud, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky and Special Agent in Charge Miles Davis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Inspector General.
Robert “Robbie” Thomas Hunt, 61, from Campbellsville, Kentucky, received a sentence of 12 months and 1 day in prison on August 26, 2025. Following his prison term, Hunt will serve two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $1,686,002 in restitution and fined $250,000 after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud earlier this year.
Court documents state that between 2014 and 2021, Hunt sold crops under other individuals’ names and significantly underreported his actual production on crop insurance claim forms. This led to more than $1.6 million in fraudulent overpayments from insurance claims.
“There is no parole in the federal system,” officials noted.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General and Risk Management Agency’s Special Investigations Staff. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Weiser prosecuted the case.
