A former Piatt County farmer has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for concealing grain sales in a scheme to defraud his creditors, officials said.
A federal judge found that the farmer had used assets like his grain as collateral for a $4.6 million loan, then concealed his grain sales and had checks issued in
A Lafayette lawyer for the shuttered DC Solar company at the heart of a nearly $1 billion fraud case has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento.
Jurors on Oct. 5 returned a 23‑count indictment against Ari J. Lauer, 59, of Lafayette, agreeing there was enough evidence to charge him with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, a U.S. Attorney said.