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• Prosecutors Lisa Leschuk and Eric Heimann, both assistant U.S. attorneys in Wyoming, filed papers in court in December laying out what they claimed were significant earlier business dealings in California by Reed and co-defendants Lauren Elizabeth Scott of Morgan, Utah, and Gregory Lee Doss of Burbank, Calif.
• Both Scott and Doss pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money. Neither has been sentenced yet.
• Two other defendants pleaded guilty last year to one count each of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, court records show. Defendant Joseph Richard Adams of California pleaded guilty in August. Defendant Christopher Ponish of Panorama City, Calif., pleaded guilty in October.
• The prosecutors' December court filing states that Reed, Scott and Doss as well as Adams and Ponish began working together in about 2007 soliciting investors for a series of related companies called SmartWear Technologies and Applied Digital Technologies. The stated purpose of the companies was to develop clothing using radio-frequency technology to allow tracking of children and others.
• The California Department of Corporations in 2008 started civil litigation against SmartWear and Applied Digital Technologies, charging that principals were illegally selling securities in the state. The state sanctioned Reed and others for the unlawful sale of securities and ordered them to pay $9 million restitution to defrauded investors, according to state filings.
• After the SmartWear solicitations ended, prosecutors Leschuk and Heimann wrote, Reed and Scott created Mountain State Power. The prosecutors stated that Reed presented the wind farm idea to Doss, Ponish, Adams and other salesmen.
• Prosecutors wrote that Reed and Doss told Adams and Ponish and other salesmen to use aliases when soliciting investors for the wind farm because of "bad publicity from the SmartWear/ADTI litigation."
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Growers making up for lost time in planting corn
JIM SUHR,AP Business Writer
• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- U.S. farmers who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of corn acreage, even in areas where conditions are still far from perfect.
• Until last week, Corn Belt farmers were enduring their slowest planting season in decades because of the wet weather. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in (Continued on page 21)
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