A former San Francisco Bay Area attorney has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison after being convicted in connection with the $1 billion DC Solar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.

An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said. Ari Lauer, 61, ...

Ari Lauer, who was disbarred in December, pleaded guilty to helping a Benicia couple facilitate a $1 billion scam with their ...

Ari Lauer was the eighth defendant to plead guilty in a case that bilked investors and the federal government out of nearly $1 billion ...

Jeff Carpoff had a lot to celebrate as friends and business associates gathered at his company's Christmas party last year. The one-time auto mechanic and his wife, Paulette, had started a solar ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) -- Alan Hansen was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $619,415,950 in restitution for participating in a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving DC Solar.