Steve McBee Sr.’s Sons Reveal How Their Dad Is Spending His Final Days Before Reporting to Prison (Exclusive)

The McBee boys of The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys are opening up about family patriarch Steve McBee Sr.’s life before he heads to prison.

“We’ve just been trying to be there for support and love and going over to his house for dinner, spending as much quality time as we can, obviously before Dec. 1,” Steven McBee Jr., the oldest son, told PEOPLE exclusively at BravoCon. “It’s a tough situation, but we’re there with him every step of the way.”

“100 percent agree,” Cole McBee chimed in. “We try to spend as much time as we can with him. Obviously it’s a busy time with harvest and fall and everything going on, but we’re over there for dinners three or four times a week, and we just support him so much, and we’re going to keep working through any problem or anything going on, and we’re going to get through this.”

Jesse McBee tells PEOPLE exclusively, “Yeah, I agree. Not much has changed… we were going over there for dinners beforehand, obviously love and support our dad as much as we can, but we’re a family at the end of the day and we’ll get through anything and this is something that we’ll just get through again, for sure.”

In November 2024, Steven Sr., 52, pleaded guilty to falsifying documents to receive unauthorized insurance benefits. This ultimately cost the U.S. government more than $4 million.

In a memo filed on Oct. 6, prosecutors asked the judge overseeing the McBee Dynasty star’s case, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Bough, to sentence McBee to 41 months in prison for his involvement in a multi-million dollar crop insurance fraud case.

Following the prison time, the memo requested “three years’ supervised release, a mandatory restitution order of $4,022,124, a forfeiture money judgment, and an order imposing the mandatory $100 special assessment.”

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Judge Bough presided over the sentencing in the Kansas City, Mo., district court on Oct. 16, where he ordered McBee to 24 months in prison and another two years on supervised release thereafter, according to the court’s text order entered on the public docket. The reality star will also pay $4,022,124 in restitution.

He is required to self-surrender before 2 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1.

The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys follows the family behind McBee Farm & Cattle Ranch in Gallatin Missouri. New episodes air on Bravo on Mondays at 9 p.m. E.T., and are available to stream on Peacock the next day.