July 13, 2026
A Utah federal judge declined to reduce further the original sentence of an accomplice in a $500 million biofuel production tax credit fraud scheme, finding that his prior reduction to 12 years had sufficiently reflected his cooperation in the trial of another defendant.
April 03, 2026
A businessman told a Utah federal court that he shouldn't need to pay over $19 million for a forfeited loan from a company central to a $511 million biofuel tax credit fraud because the government's calculations are unjust and a government asset tricked him into withholding payment.
March 03, 2026
A businessman who owes more than $19 million to a company subject to forfeiture over its involvement in a $511 million biofuel tax credit fraud must hand over the money to the federal government now that a catfishing scheme targeting him is resolved, the government told a Utah federal court.
June 05, 2023
A leader of a $511 million renewable-energy tax fraud scheme who was sentenced to 40 years in prison and given a $443 million fine told a Utah federal court Monday that he will appeal to the Tenth Circuit.
April 08, 2023
A Utah federal judge handed down a 40-year sentence to the leader of sprawling renewable-energy tax fraud scheme that generated $511 million in false payouts and doled out lesser sentences to four members of a fundamentalist sect who helped him perpetrate the scheme.
April 03, 2023
A Los Angeles businessman convicted for his role in a $511 million renewable-energy tax fraud scheme should get life in prison, prosecutors told a Utah federal court Monday, arguing that his "unparalleled greed," lack of remorse and other factors support such a sentence.
February 12, 2021
A Utah federal court rejected a Los Angeles businessman's requests for a new trial related to his involvement in a $512 million renewable-energy tax fraud scheme, finding the federal government's evidence sufficient to support the jury's guilty verdict.
April 30, 2020
Los Angeles businessman Lev Dermen wants a Utah federal court to reopen discovery following his March conviction for a $511 million fraud, citing a new guilty plea from a Beverly Hills lawyer that Dermen says shows prosecutors withheld important information from him, including an allegedly corrupt ex-FBI agent.
March 25, 2020
Prosecutors who recently obtained a conviction against Los Angeles businessman Lev Dermen for a $511 million tax fraud told a Utah federal court Tuesday the man's push for a coronavirus-based mistrial is off-base since the district is still still conducting already-begun criminal trials to this day.
March 23, 2020
The Utah jury that convicted Los Angeles businessman Lev Dermen in a $511 million tax fraud last Monday appeared to have been in the grip of a coronavirus panic, Dermen's lawyers told a federal court Monday, emphatically renewing the camp's pre-verdict request for a mistrial.