California man gets prison for nearly $9M phony cow manure-to-green energy investment scheme

A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm outside Jerome, Idaho, on March 11, 2009. A California man is going to prison for running a cow pat-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure. Ray Brewer of Porterville was sentenced Tuesday, June 27, 2023, to six years and nine months in federal prison for a scam that bilked investors out of nearly $9 million. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)