California man sentenced for investment scheme, claimed he could convert cow manure into green energy
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California man who fraudulently claimed he could convert cow manure into green energy was sentenced to prison after bilking investors out of nearly $9 million.
A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure. Ray Brewer, 66, of Porterville was sentenced Monday to six years and nine months in federal prison in a years-long scam that bilked investors out of $8.75 million, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. Brewer ran a scheme from 2014 through 2019 in which he claimed to be building anaerobic digesters at dairies in California's Fresno, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties and in Idaho, prosecutors said. DON'T FALL FOR THIS SNEAKY NAMELESS NUMBER TEXT SCAM Anaerobic digesters "use microorganisms to break down biodegradable…