Former California Solar Firm Attorney Sentenced to 11 Years and 5 Months for Helping Orchestrate a $1 Billion Fraud Scheme

An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.

Ari Lauer, 61, pleaded guilty in October to 23 felony counts including bank fraud and wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. He was sentenced on Monday.

Lauer was outside counsel for DC Solar, based in Benicia in the San Francisco Bay Area. Between 2011 and 2018, the company marketed mobile solar generator units.

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