DC Solar scammers serve as cautionary tale for solar investors

Renewable Energy World: 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 company about a decade earlier that was doing remarkably well -- so well that it could count Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as an investor in its funds. Their business, making mobile solar generators, had afforded them lavish goodies.

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