An Illinois farmer has been sentenced to 42 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $5 million after securing about $8.4 million in bank loans with false paperwork.
Travis L. Murphy, 55, of Chandlerville must also serve three years of supervised release, reports WAND.
In 2016 Murphy secured an initial $1,762,000 line of credit from UMB Bank by claiming a grain complex cost about $2.65 million to build when the actual cost was about $986,000, and he also submitted false tax returns.
The false documents led the bank to extend the first loan and later loans that reached about $8.4 million before Murphy tried to wipe out the debts in bankruptcy.
The scheme came to light in U.S. Bankruptcy Court with help from the U.S. Trustee Program and chapter 7 trustee Andrew S. Erickson, and Judge Mary P. Gorman denied the discharge in a 2020 opinion.
A federal grand jury in the Central District of Illinois indicted Murphy for bank fraud in 2023, and he pleaded guilty in 2025.
At sentencing on September 21st, 2026, the court ordered him to pay $4,966,624.01 in restitution to UMB Bank.
News coverage summarizing the government evidence at sentencing said,
“The misrepresentation caused UMB Bank to extend the initial loan and other loans based on that false information and false tax returns Murphy provided to UMB Bank.”
UMB Bank, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, had approximately $72.35 billion in total assets as of the second quarter, according to the Federal Reserve.
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