Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit February 12, 2002, 01-2785 (United States v. Larry Reed & Sons Partnership)

PER CURIAM.

In 2001, the agricultural partnership Larry Reed & Sons (the partnership) and its individual partners were found by a jury to have submitted a false cotton crop insurance claim eight years earlier. The partnership’s insurance claim requested coverage for the loss of 194.1 acres of cotton in 1993, but the jury found the claim violated the False Claims Act because the 194.