April 29, 2022
A former ski resort owner was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison and more than $8.3 million in restitution for his role in an $85 million snow job raising funding for the ill-fated AnC Vermont biotechnology facility from immigrants seeking U.S. investor visas.
April 21, 2022
A Vermont federal judge has sentenced a Florida man to 18 months in prison and over $8 million in payments for defrauding about $85 million from hundreds of international investors seeking green cards, according to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement.
April 06, 2022
The former president of ski resort Jay Peak has objected to the federal government's push to siphon $1.6 million from his accounts for his role in an EB-5 visa fraud scheme, telling a Vermont federal court that the blame for investors' losses lies with state regulators.
March 19, 2021
The former in-house attorney and adviser to Ariel Quiros, the ex-owner of the Jay Peak Ski Resort who pled guilty last year to participating in an EB-5 visa scheme, has lost his bid to separate his criminal trial in Vermont federal court from the trial of the resort's former CEO.
August 14, 2020
Federal prosecutors in Vermont announced on Friday that a former ski resort owner pled guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and hiding details from regulators in an EB-5 fraud scheme after he made a deal that would limit his future jail sentence to about eight years.
February 27, 2020
A developer accused of defrauding foreign investors in an alleged EB-5 visa scheme told a Vermont federal court that U.S. government prosecutors in the case have been tainted by unauthorized access to privileged communications between him and his attorney.
November 15, 2019
A developer accused of defrauding foreign investors in a Vermont EB-5 project shouldn't be able to move the case out of state, federal prosecutors said Thursday, arguing that media coverage has been fair and the risk of prejudicing a jury in the upcoming trial is low.
October 16, 2019
A developer accused of defrauding foreign investors in a Vermont EB-5 project claimed on Tuesday that the U.S. attorney's office steered its investigation around Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and other officials' roles in the alleged scheme.
May 22, 2019
Federal prosecutors in Vermont unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging the former owner of ski resort Jay Peak and three of his associates with skimming funds from immigrant investors in an alleged EB-5 visa fraud scheme.