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Texan businessman who devised a fraudulent solar energy scheme with Yaacov Meridor to sell to the Hunt brothers for $2 million. |
Joe Peeples was a Texan businessman who, along with Yaacov Meridor and a Romanian expatriate, devised a scheme to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million. Peeples was unable to return the $2 million to the Hunts and was subsequently jailed for fraud.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎