A criminal grand jury has indicted Phil Lester and Susan Laferte for allegedly defrauding investors of millions of dollars over a period of eight years, while acting as CEO and CFO of Gold Country Lenders, respectively. Lester and Laferte already were facing 66 felony counts of elder abuse, securities fraud and conspiracy that had been filed in September by California Attorney General Maggy Krell and had been set for a preliminary hearing into the evidence in March. But Krell opted to seek a grand jury indictment instead; that indictment, which was announced in Nevada County Superior Court Thursday afternoon, supersedes …