Elected officials in Vermont at both the state and federal levels will not have to take the stand and explain their part in a years-long multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme to defraud foreign investors. The state has settled out of court.
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Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy Should Be Named in Vermont’s Latest EB5 Ponzi Scheme Lawsuit
A group representing 121 “Investors” has filed a lawsuit claiming that state officials in Vermont knew the project at a Vermont Ski Resort was a Ponzi scheme but did nothing to stop it.
Why Is All This Federal Money Pouring in to Newport, Vermont?
Newport, Vermont is a tiny ‘berg’ near the Canadian border of roughly 4,600 people, but it attracts federal money like nobody’s business. Senators Leahy and Sanders, along with Representative Welch, all from Vermont, have wrangled a small fortune in grants to …”remodel” the airport there, money that now has ties to some nefarious characters.