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Trial for the last Washakie fraud defendant begins this week: Here’s what you need to know

(Photo courtesy U.S. District Court for the District of Utah) Lev Dermen, left, stands with Jacob Kingston at Dermen's home or business in Southern California circa 2013. Federal prosecutors say this photo is evidence of how Kingston purchased the 2010 Bugatti Veyron, left, for $1.72 million to give Dermen, and Dermen purchased the Ferrari, right, to give to Kingston to launder money from a biofuel fraud. Kingston has pleaded guilty to crimes. Dermen has pleaded not guilty. Behind the men is a sculpture of a lion's head, the animal Dermen associates himself with.