DC Solar attorney indicted in the DC Solar billion-dollar Ponzi scheme
October 10, 2023 — On Oct. 5, 2023, a federal grand jury returned a 23 count indictment against Ari J. Lauer, of Lafayette, charging him with conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud affecting a financial institution, for his role in the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California, U.S. Attorney