A federal jury in Philadelphia convicted a Colorado man for his role as the deal-closer in a $54 million Ponzi scheme where investors poured their money into a bogus Main Line green energy company started by two local Temple University graduates.
Wayde McKelvy of Centennial, Colo., and co-conspirators Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr lured more than 300 investors with the promise of huge returns, as high as 484 percent, for securities investments in supposedly profitable business ventures in real estate…