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ICYMI: America's Biggest Green Energy Con Artist Once Honored By Clinton Foundation(T)
townhall.com ^ | 4/21/2019 | Tim Meads

Posted on 04/21/2019 8:38:38 AM PDT by rktman

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ICYMI: America's Biggest Green Energy Con Artist Once Honored By Clinton Foundation Gets 2.5 Years In Prison

In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, let's look at a company that was once honored by the Clinton Global Initiative for its dedication to stopping global warming before it was discovered the leaders of the business were actually fleecing investors for more than $54 million in an elaborate Ponzi scheme. More recently earlier this month, one of the chief architects of this scam was sentenced 2.5 years in prison, five years parole, and must repay every dollar stolen from gullible financial backers.

Philadelphia Business Journal reported April 8 that "Amanda Knorr, 35, of Hellertown, Pa., received the prison sentence late Friday after pleading guilty to wire and securities fraud for what prosecutors have called the biggest scam involving clean energy in American history."

Knorr and her "business" as well as romantic partner, Troy Wragg, created a company called Mantria shortly after graduating from Temple University. The duo claimed to be selling "real estate and 'green energy' products, like biochar – a form of charcoal produced by plant matter. Prosecutors said the biochar was never actually in production."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 201904; biochar; cgi; clinton; fidiots; gangreen; gorons; green; hillary; knorr; mantria; wragg
Cleangreen scama lama ding dong. The last clang you hear will be your cell door closing. I fair ending but not as much as I would like to see for them. You take what you can right? They did.
1 posted on 04/21/2019 8:38:38 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

I think Terry McAuliffe scammed more for his fraudulent electric car company, and not one government person raised an eyebrow.


2 posted on 04/21/2019 8:52:27 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Image result for Amanda Knorr picture
Amanda Knorr and Troy Wragg
3 posted on 04/21/2019 8:54:58 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (<b>during the Libyan civil war, these guys manage to come back with bags of money from Qadaffi?</b>)
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“The electric car company founded by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe — who is prepping to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, blaming negative coverage by a conservative news website.”

Maybe he went to the Solyndra Business College and got a degree in Obamanomics.


4 posted on 04/21/2019 9:17:16 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Elon Musk better start getting real nervous about his Ponzi scheme.

His brilliance is he's duping taxpayers, not individuals, with an unlimited amount of funds to scam.

5 posted on 04/21/2019 10:09:01 AM PDT by lewislynn
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Who do they think they are? Theranos?


6 posted on 04/21/2019 10:47:55 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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So, another Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) ‘wunderkind’.

She (Holmes) is still awaiting trial, BTW.


7 posted on 04/21/2019 10:55:30 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: VanShuyten

The clintons are always involved in crime. Will this be an episode or an entire season of the tv show “American Greed”?


8 posted on 04/21/2019 11:06:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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