Jay Peak bombshell

Edd said:

Legend. Because of him, I will forever call them “bankins”.

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Edd said:

Legend. Because of him, I will forever call them “bankins”.

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JimG. said:

Moderation.

If you don't moderate someone's feelings get hurt and they demand moderation.

When you do moderate people scream their First Amendment rights are being violated.

A total no win for moderators. I've been a moderator for close to 20 years here and I've personally never banned a user. Nothing written here bothers me so much that I need to lash out and cancel anyone. People have a right to act like fools for everyone to see. If someone doesn't like it, that's what the ignore feature is for.

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Vter said:

Why do all your FOS posts/ replays reak of shit. Stay up there in your over priced pieces of shit, crap built Toll House Condos. The people who for the most part live there Suck. Yes, as a Child I wanted to live there too. Now you got AH’s who are stuck in shit, trapped by traffic, who say hey, “when it sucks here, I’ll go to Jackson Ass Hole and stink that place up more…” fuck off, self centered asshole. I can’t stand the sight of you in Stowe, on or off the hill. Your posts stink and you F’n suck dick rich Balls arrogant MFer. Stay away from me, forever !!!

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The sale of a Northeast Kingdom ski resort netted just over $67 million, according to recently filed court documents. The sale proceeds will be distributed to investors who were defrauded by the former owner and president of Jay Peak. The resort was run by a court-appointed receiver for six years after federal regulators revealed that the former owner and president of the resort misappropriated more than $200 million from foreign investors. Pacific Group Resorts bought Jay Peak for $76 million - the Utah-based company runs several ski resorts, including Powderhorn Mountain in Colorado and Ragged Mountain in New Hampshire. The profits from the sale were about $9 million less than the purchase price because Pacific Group Resorts assumed some debts and other financial obligations.

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VTKilarney said:

So now that the whole saga is over, I have an interesting story.

Some of you may remember that I used to post quite a bit about my suspicions that the EB-5 program at Jay Peak was a scam. It was basically Benedict Gomez and I leading the charge - with most people thinking that we were crackpots. We took quite a bit of heat from many of the people here. I spent quite a bit of time doing research and it seemed incredibly obvious to me that something was wrong. Frankly, it should have been obvious to anyone after reading our posts.

About a year before everything fell apart I got a telephone call at work from Bill Stenger. He invited me to meet with him personally up at Jay Peak. I took him up on his offer and he was nice enough to give me a ski pass to make the trip worthwhile.

The meeting was cordial. It was basically an infomercial to try to convince me that everything was on the level. He clearly did not want me posting on this forum, and the meeting was designed to convince me that I was wrong so the posting would stop. I pretty much just listened, since I knew that he was never going to admit that my suspicions were correct. Needless to say, he didn't change my mind. My overall impression was that there was a level of desperation but Stenger somehow believed that they could keep the house of cards from falling.

I never asked how he figured out my actual identity, but I didn't really care since I stood by my posts and my opinions.

I would love to believe that Stenger was an innocent victim in all of this - but I really don't believe that. Which is too bad, because during our meeting he seemed like a very likeable person and that he could have been a good ambassador for Jay Peak.

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VTKilarney said:

So now that the whole saga is over, I have an interesting story.

Some of you may remember that I used to post quite a bit about my suspicions that the EB-5 program at Jay Peak was a scam. It was basically Benedict Gomez and I leading the charge - with most people thinking that we were crackpots. We took quite a bit of heat from many of the people here. I spent quite a bit of time doing research and it seemed incredibly obvious to me that something was wrong. Frankly, it should have been obvious to anyone after reading our posts.

About a year before everything fell apart I got a telephone call at work from Bill Stenger. He invited me to meet with him personally up at Jay Peak. I took him up on his offer and he was nice enough to give me a ski pass to make the trip worthwhile.

The meeting was cordial. It was basically an infomercial to try to convince me that everything was on the level. He clearly did not want me posting on this forum, and the meeting was designed to convince me that I was wrong so the posting would stop. I pretty much just listened, since I knew that he was never going to admit that my suspicions were correct. Needless to say, he didn't change my mind. My overall impression was that there was a level of desperation but Stenger somehow believed that they could keep the house of cards from falling.

I never asked how he figured out my actual identity, but I didn't really care since I stood by my posts and my opinions.

I would love to believe that Stenger was an innocent victim in all of this - but I really don't believe that. Which is too bad, because during our meeting he seemed like a very likeable person and that he could have been a good ambassador for Jay Peak.

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thetrailboss said:

An ‘unknowing pawn?’: From prison, Bill Stenger claims state ‘covered up’ Jay Peak fraud - VTDigger

The former president and CEO of Jay Peak took aim at state officials in a court filing for failed oversight in the largest fraud case in Vermont’s history. Former Gov. Peter Shumlin called it “a classic example” of blame-shifting.

vtdigger.org

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Abubob said:

I don’t doubt government corruption. I also doubt he was an unknowing pawn.

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