Guilty verdict is delivered in biodiesel fraud

摘要

Washington—A federal jury on June 25 con-victed the Maryland man behind a scheme todefraud oil companies and traders by sellingthem $9.1 million in fake renewable fuel cred-its without producing a drop of biodiesel.Rodney Hailey and his company CleanGreen Fuel sold more than 35 million renew-able identification numbers (RINs) betweenMarch 2009 and December 2010 withoutmaking any of the 23 million gallons of biodie-sel he said the credits represented.