Craig Spofford, 48, of Dolgeville, New York admitted that he fraudulently obtained $179,051 in crop insurance benefits from Rural Community Insurance Services, a company that is reinsured by the federal governments crop insurance program. (designer491/Shutterstock)
A central New York State man who filed crop insurance loss claims based on fields he never sowed pled guilty recently to three counts of fraud, according to a May 31, 2023, statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York.
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