A California man has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for duping investors by telling them he was using cow manure to create green energy, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Monday.
A California man has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for duping investors by telling them he was using cow manure to create green energy, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Monday.
Brewer told investors they would receive 66% of the profits from this process along with tax incentives. Throughout the scheme, he tricked his investors by sending forged lease agreements with dairy farms, false bank statements showing he had been given loans to build the digesters, forged contracts with multinational companies and even fake pictures showing the digestors being built.
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