Goldberg, the receiver, is seeking damages from the resort’s former Canadian owners, Mont-Saint-Sauveur International Inc. That project has since been termed by federal regulators “nearly a complete fraud.”Īlso Wednesday, Reiss presided over a hearing in another EB-5 related case, this one broughtīy a court-appointed receiver - now overseeing Jay Peak and other assets at the center of the fraud scandal - against the former owner of the ski area who sold it to Quiros. The federal criminal fraud charges brought against Quiros and Stenger and two other men in May 2019 are linked to a project they headed to build a biomedical research center in Newport, known as AnC Bio Vermont. Quiros, regulators say, also siphoned off another $50 million to pay for personal expenses, such as a New York City condo and his own taxes. That scheme, according to court filings, involved the developers commingling and misusing $200 million of the more than $400 million raised from foreign investors through the EB-5 visa program. Several of the earlier EB-5 projects headed by Quiros and Stenger were built, including large-scale upgrades at Jay Peak, the northern Vermont ski area.īut, later projects ground to a halt when regulators say they uncovered a “Ponzi-like” scheme. residency, or green cards, provided each investment meets job creation requirements.
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The federal EB-5 visa program allows foreign investors who put at least $500,000, plus administrative fees, into qualified projects to obtain permanent U.S. The lawsuit alleges that at the time Shen was bringing investors to the Jay Peak projects he did not tell immigrant investors he was also getting a payoff from Stenger in addition to the legal fees he charged those investors to help with their immigration paperwork. The legal action claims that Shen took more than $1.25 million in kickbacks in return for bringing investors to EB-5 funded projects to make massive upgrades at Jay Peak ski resort led by Stenger and Quiros. Those investors say they never would have put money into Jay Peak projects had they been warned by Shen, their attorney, about allegations of fraud that surfaced in 2012 and again in 2014. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of a group of Chinese investors, is against Jianming Shen, an immigration lawyer from New York state. “Criminal and civil trials are being set and are scheduled to go forward this month in this courtroom so we’ll be experts by the time we get to you,” Reiss told both Mattson and Barr. Now, Reiss said in court Wednesday, jury trials in Vermont federal courts are set to resume.
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The lawsuit had been set for trial in April, but that was put on hold as a result of Covid-19 and federal courts in Vermont postponing jury trials. That indictment charges all four men with fraud in a failed EB-5 financed project to build a $110 million biomedical research facility in Newport. Quiros, the resort’s former owner, and Stenger, the ski area’s past CEO and president, as well as two of their associates, have been charged in a federal indictment. Matson and Russell Barr are Stowe lawyers representing a group of E-5 investors alleging a “kickback” scheme involving an attorney who brought foreign investors and their money to development projects headed by Jay Peak developers Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger. Matson told the judge his crystal ball on Covid-19 wasn’t clear, but he still hoped the case could proceed to trial by March. “If you have that information you better share it,” Reiss replied to Matson’s suggestion that he may have insight concerning a possible end to the pandemic. “We choose dates that work for everyone also with a reasonable expectation that maybe there will be a return to normalcy,” attorney Chandler Matson told the judge. Prosecutors want EB-5 records kept secret ‘however unsatisfying’ to ‘the media, or the Vermont public’.Shumlin, other state leaders in EB-5 case may be revealed Merrill Lynch settles EB-5 fraud case for $4.5 million.Judge: FBI interviews of Shumlin administration in EB-5 fraud case must be unsealed.
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