USA v. Keystone Biofuels et al

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:17-cr-00143

Court:

Pennsylvania Middle

Nature of Suit:

Judge:

John E. Jones, III

Firms

  1. January 04, 2023

    Ex-Biofuel Execs Say US Sitting On Docs As They Seek Retrial

    Two former executives of a biofuels company who were sentenced to prison for falsely claiming millions in biodiesel tax credits asked a Pennsylvania federal court to force the government to reveal documents they say could trigger a new trial.

  2. March 18, 2022

    Ex-Biofuel Execs Cite Dodgy EPA Witness In Bid For New Trial

    Two former Keystone Biofuels executives sentenced to prison for a scheme to falsely claim millions in biodiesel tax credits want a new trial after discovering a key witness for the federal government was considered unreliable by his superiors. 

  3. October 21, 2020

    Pa. Biofuel Execs Get 5 Years For Fuel-Credit Fraud

    Two owners of Keystone Biofuels were sentenced in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday to more than five years each in prison and ordered to pay a total of more than $9 million in restitution over a scheme to falsely claim millions in biodiesel tax credits.

  4. September 14, 2020

    Feds Want Pa. Biofuels Exec Jailed For At Least 6½ Years

    Federal prosecutors asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Sunday to sentence Keystone Biofuels to pay some $9 million in restitution over a scheme that falsely claimed millions in biodiesel tax credits and to sentence founder Race Miner to at least 78 months in prison.

  5. August 18, 2020

    Ex-Biofuel Exec Looks To Limit Fuel-Credit Fraud Sentence

    Former Keystone Biofuels Inc. President Ben Wootton asked a Pennsylvania federal court on Monday to sentence him to roughly 63 months for his involvement in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by claiming millions in biodiesel tax credits.