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category: Other
summary: The Hunt brothers were a wealthy family from Texas.
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- Person
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The [Hunt brothers](/people/hunt-brothers/) were a wealthy family from [Texas](/places/texas/). They were involved in a fraudulent scheme where they purchased the rights to a solar energy system from [Yaacov Meridor](/people/yaacov-meridor/) and a Romanian expatriate for $2 million. The scheme was later exposed as a fraud, leading to [Joe Peeples](/people/joe-peeples/) being jailed.[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.