January 04, 2023
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.
March 18, 2022
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.
October 21, 2020
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.
September 14, 2020
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.
August 18, 2020
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.