Bixby Energy Systems/Robert Walker cases

Case summary

On June 19, 2012, the founder of Bixby Energy Systems, Inc., a Ramsey-based alternative energy company, was indicted for lying to investors in an effort to induce them to commit large sums of money to the business. Robert Allen Walker, age 69, of Ramsey, Minnesota, was charged in a superseding indictment with nine counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, four counts of securities fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. These charges were added to Walker’s prior charge of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
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Case calendar

The case of the U.S. v. Robert Walker is now scheduled for a date certain trial on January 13, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 7B, St. Paul, MN before Judge Susan Richard Nelson.

The sentencing hearing for Gary Albert Collyard has been set for August 1, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom 7B, St. Paul, MN before Judge Susan Richard Nelson.

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A Ramsey-based alternative energy company has admitted defrauding investors of between $2.5 and $7 million. Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. was charged via an Information with one count of securities fraud and immediately accepted that charge as part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. In entering the agreement, Bixby Energy took responsibility for the acts of its former officers and agents. The agreement recognized Bixby Energy’s compliance with the rule of law as well as its cooperation with the government.
December 14, 2011
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The former acting chief financial officer for Bixby Energy Systems, Inc., was sentenced for lying to investors to get them to commit large sums of money to the business and for failing to file federal tax returns and reporting his income for three years, which resulted in a tax loss for the Internal Revenue Service of $825,866.
June 16, 2012
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A Delano man pleaded guilty to conspiring to mislead investors in an effort to induce them into committing large sums of money to Bixby Energy Systems, Inc., a Ramsey-based alternative energy company. Gary Albert Collyard specifically pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities
fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
February 28, 2012
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