Florida Attorney General Announces Legal Action Against Solar Panel ‘Scammers’

‘My primary goal is to shut these businesses down, take away licenses, and make sure they cannot take advantage of other people,’ Moody says.

Solar panels sit on rooftops at a housing development in Folsom, Calif., on Feb. 12, 2020. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

TAMPA, Fla.—Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that she was taking legal action against the solar panel company Modern Concepts Solar (MC Solar), stating its three founders—two of whom are convicted felons—violated state consumer protection laws after hundreds of scamming complaints sparked an investigation.

Ms. Moody said on Nov. 7 that the investigation revealed the company founders—Armando Almirall, Raman Chopra, and Michael Crowder—had “conducted extremely deceptive and unfair trade practices” to induce and scam hundreds of Floridians into signing large, expensive contracts for work that were either never performed or left uncompleted.