man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure.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.
Dairy cows, which consume a significant amount of water, gather at a farm on July 05, 2022 in Visalia, California. A California man is going to prison for running a cow manure-to-green energy investment scheme. Brewer took investors on tours of dairies where he allegedly planned to build the digesters and claimed to have raised millions of dollars for the work. He sent them forged lease agreements with dairy owners, faked loan agreements with banks, phony contracts with multinational companies and bogus pictures of the machines under construction, prosecutors said.