California Couple with Lake Tahoe Vacation Rentals Plead Guilty to Defrauding Investors of $1-BILLION The owners of a solar energy company based out of the San Francisco Bay Area just plead guilty to defrauding investors of $1 billion with a massive Ponzi scheme they had been running for years, the Tahoe Daily Tribune reports.ย Jeff Carpoff, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and is facing up to 30 […] Martin Kuprianowicz | January 29, 2020 0 Comments