Vermont Consumer Credit Law
Tom Daley, et al. v. Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Burlington, Vermont consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a fraud theory. <br> <br> This was a class action lawsuit against Defendant Toyota Motor North America, Inc. ("Toyota" or "Defendant") by Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and a class of current and former owners and lessees of model year 2022-2024 Toyota Tundra and Toyota Tundra hybrid vehicles (the "Class Vehicles" or "Vehicl... More...
$1 (09-30-2025 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Madison Carrig </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Employer Embezzlements </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Madison Carrig Imprisoned For Employer Embezzlements</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The United States Attorney's Office announced that Madison Carrig, 30, of W... More...
$0 (02-05-2025 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Andrew Chaves </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Aggravated Identity Theft </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Washington, DC Man Sentenced to 2 Years in Aggravated Identity Theft Case</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> The United States Attorney's Office for the District... More...
$0 (01-28-2025 - VT)Henry Mooers v. Middlebury College
<h2><br> Burlington, Vermont breach of contract lawyers represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> Plaintiff Henry Mooers brings this putative class action against Defendant Middlebury College alleging claims of breach of contract, unjust enrichment, conversion, and violation of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act ("VCPA") stemming from Defendant's tuition and fee policy during semesters in which it... More...
$0 (10-18-2024 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Paul Bateman; Samir Doshi; Rebecca Buckley </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a elder fraud scheme </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Final two defendants, a mother and daughter, were sentenced to prison for their involvement in elder fraud scheme</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On April 19, 2024,... More...
$0 (05-19-2024 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Paul Bateman; Samir Doshi; Rebecca Buckley. </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Drug Trafficking.</font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> <br> <br> Three Sentenced in International Controlled Substances and Prescription Drug Trafficking Operation </h2></center><br> <br> The United States Attorney's Office for the District... More...
$0 (04-19-2024 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Jennifer Stocker </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Pandemic Fraud.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> New Haven, Vermont Woman Sentenced to Prison Term for Pandemic Fraud </h3></center></i><br> <br> he United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jennifer Stocker, 46, of New... More...
$0 (03-11-2024 - VT)<h1> United States of America v. Carleena Graham </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a Defrauding Federal Program Funding.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b> Carleena Graham Sentenced For Defrauding Federal Program Funding Recipient</h3></center></i><br> <br> The United States Attorney's Office stated that Carleena Gra... More...
$0 (03-08-2024 - VT)United States of America v. Jodi Lathrop
<h3>Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Indicted on wire fraud and tax evasion Charges.</h3><br> <br> <br> U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont<br> Burlington, Vermont – The Office of the United States Attorney announced that Jodi Lathrop, 53, of Bristol, Vermont, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to charges of wire f... More...
$0 (12-29-2023 - VT)United States of America v. Carleena Graham
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud.<br> <br> On May 31, 2023, the United States filed a one count information charging Carleena Graham, 56, of Accokeek, Maryland, with wire fraud. The defendant pleaded guilty to that charge today. According to the information, the victim, World Learning, is a non-profit global development and exchange organiz... More...
$0 (06-30-2023 - VT)United States of America v. Dennis Duffy, II
Burlington, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with loan fraud and money laundering.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Burlington_VT-Fed.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Burlington, Vermont"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Burlington, Vermont<br> <P><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.... More...
$0 (03-13-2023 - VT)United States of America v. Giovanni Joseph
Rutland, Vermont criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1334(1).<br> <br> Giovanni Joseph, 34, formerly of Dix Hills, New York, was with one count of bank fraud. <br> <br> According to court records, Joseph presented stolen checks at five banks around central Vermont in March of 2020. The checks had been stolen from U.S. Postal Service mai... More...
$0 (12-12-2021 - VT)United States of America v. Veronica Lewis
Burlington, Vermont firearm felony charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Veronica Lewis, 36, of Worchester, Vermont who was charged with Interference with Commerce by Robbery, and Possession of a Stolen Firearm. United States District Judge Christina Reiss deferred acceptance of the plea agreement by the Court until sentencing, which has been scheduled for May 28, 2021. The agree... More...
$0 (02-15-2021 - VT)United States of America v. Charles Harris and Bryan Boley
Portland, Maine counterfeit credit card criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with conspiracy to us a coutnerfeit access device.<br> <br> In December 2018, Charles Harris, 37, and his co-defendant, Bryan Boley, used counterfeit credit cards at Maine retail outlets. The credit card numbers were purchased online.<br> <br> Harris faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He... More...
$0 (12-11-2020 - VT)United States of America v. Bryant McCray, Lateek Cargo, Justin Johnson and Kylee Raduechel
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/District-Vermont.png"><br> </center><br> Burlington, VT - Four Sentenced in Connection with Arson at 400 Main Street in Winooski, Vermont and Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Cocaine<br> <br> Bryant McCray, 33, and Lateek Cargo, 32, both formerly of Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced on charges of arson and c... More...
$0 (06-10-2019 - VT)Jessica Gingras v. Think Finance, Inc.
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/District-Vermont.png"><br> </center><br> <br> The federal government and many states have laws designed to protect<br> consumers against predatory lending practices. In this case, we must<br> determine what happens when those laws conflict with the off-reservation<br> commercial activities of Indian tribes. In s... More...
$0 (04-24-2019 - VT)United States of America v. Angelo Efthimiatos
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/District-Vermont.png"><br> </center><br> Burlington, VT - <br> Sudbury Man Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Flying Without a Valid Pilot’s License<br> <br> Angelo Efthimiatos, 49, of Sudbury, Vermont, was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison followed by a year of supervised release following his convicti... More...
$0 (04-12-2019 - VT)State of Vermont v. Michael W. Tobin
<center><br> <img width="200" src="https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/ibmig/cms/image/wptz/35968316-35968316.jpg?crop=1xw:1.00000000000000000xh;center,top&resize=900:* "><br> <h2> <font color="red"> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> In October 2015, the State charged defendant with aggravated sexual assault in <br> violation of 13 V.S.A. § 3253(a)(8) based on allegation... More...
$0 (10-17-2018 - VT)United States of America v. Katie Stygles
Manchester, VT - Katie Stygles Sentenced For Defrauding Bradford Employer<br> <br> Katie Stygles, 29, of Piermont, New Hampshire, was sentenced on August 9, 2018 in United States District Court in Rutland to five years of probation following her guilty plea to a charge of credit card fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that Stygles pay restitution totaling $71,583. <b... More...
$0 (08-12-2018 - VT)State of Vermont v. Lucas Dwight <table> <td>
Defendant Lucas Dwight appeals the trial court’s restitution order requiring him to pay dental expenses resulting from defendant’s conviction for simple assault. Defendant raises two main issues: (1) whether the court erred in awarding restitution for expenses that complainant’s father paid on complainant’s behalf; and (2) whether the ordered repayment schedule, which considered defen... More...
$0 (08-01-2018 - VT)State of Vermont v. William Schenk <table> <td>
Defendant William Schenk was charged with two counts of <br> disorderly conduct, in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1026(a)(1), in connection with the distribution of <br> Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers in the City of Burlington. For each count, the State charged that <br> the penalty should be enhanced under 13 V.S.A. § 1455 because the crime was hate-motivated. <br> Defendant appeals the trial co... More...
$0 (06-11-2018 - VT)State of Vermont v. William Schenk <table> <td>
Defendant William Schenk was charged with two counts of <br> disorderly conduct, in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1026(a)(1), in connection with the distribution of <br> Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers in the City of Burlington. For each count, the State charged that <br> the penalty should be enhanced under 13 V.S.A. § 1455 because the crime was hate-motivated. <br> Defendant appeals the trial c... More...
$0 (05-05-2018 - VT)State of Vermont v. Jasen Suhr <table> <td>
Defendant appeals the trial court’s decision that he violated the <br> terms of his juvenile probation by failing to attend school, comply with his GPS-monitoring <br> requirements, and participate in a Restorative Justice Panel. Defendant also appeals the trial <br> court’s decision to revoke his youthful-offender status based on these violations. We affirm in <br> part and reverse and rem... More...
$0 (04-28-2018 - VT)State of Vermont v. Jeffrey Davis <table> <td>
Defendant Jeffrey Davis appeals his conviction for financial <br> exploitation of a vulnerable adult under 13 V.S.A. § 1380(a) following a jury trial. He raises four <br> arguments on appeal. His first two arguments arise from the trial court’s denial of his motion for <br> a judgment of acquittal and the sufficiency of the State’s evidence. He also argues that the court’s <br> instruct... More...
$0 (03-26-2018 - VT)United States of America v. Matthew Hinton
Burlington, VT - Orwell Man Sentenced to 84 months of Imprisonment for Armed Robbery of Fair Haven Maplefields Store in September 2015<br> <br> The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Matthew Hinton, 28, most recently of Orwell, Vermont, has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to 84 months of imprisonment for an armed robbery of the ... More...
$0 (02-12-2018 - VT)United States of America v. Michael Bickford
Burlington, VT - Perkinsville Man Pleads Guilty in Armed Pharmacy and Bank Robbery Case<br> <br> Michael Bickford, age 38, formerly of Perkinsville, Vermont, pled guilty on December 18, 2017 in the United States District Court in Burlington to charges stemming from the December 5, 2016 armed robbery of the River Street Pharmacy in Springfield, Vermont. Bickford also admitted to the armed robberie... More...
$0 (12-29-2017 - VT)United States of America v. Katie Stygles
Burlington, VT - Katie Stygles Pleads Not Guilty To Defrauding Bradford Employer<br> <br> The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Katie Stygles, 29, of Piermont, New Hampshire, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal fraud charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Stygles on conditions pending trial, which has not... More...
$0 (10-26-2017 - VT)State of Vermont v. Dale Byam <table> <td>
The underlying facts of this case are not in dispute. Defendant was arraigned on <br> July 17, 2013, for aggravated domestic assault and cruelty to a child. The Superior Court, Orange <br> Unit, Criminal Division imposed conditions of pretrial release that included a twenty-four-hour <br> curfew with exceptions only for legal and medical appointments and for emergencies. The court <br> restrict... More...
$0 (06-19-2017 - VT)United States of America v. Sally Kirby
Burlington, VT - Sally Kirby Imprisoned For Hunger Free Vermont Embezzlement<br> <br> Sally Kirby, 61, of Essex Junction, was sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a federal forgery charge. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Kirby serve three years of supervised release following completion of her prison term and pay restitution of more than... More...
$0 (09-20-2016 - VT)State of Vermont v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al.
This interlocutory appeal calls upon us to decide whether V.S.A. § 462 creates an exemption from the general six-year limitation for the State of Vermont’s claims against a host of defendants for generalized injury to state waters as a whole due to groundwater contamination from gasoline additives. On the basis of the statute of <br> limitations, the trial court dismissed the State’s claim... More...
$0 (05-29-2016 - VT)Flight Attendants in Reunion v. Am. Airlines, Inc.
After the 2013 merger between American Airlines, Inc. and U.S. 23 <br> Airways, four former Trans World Airlines (“TWA”) flight attendants, 24 <br> now working for American Airlines, and Flight Attendants in Reunion 25 <br> (“FAIR”), an unincorporated association formed to enforce the legal rights 26 <br> of similarly situated flight attendants, ... More...
$0 (02-18-2016 - VT)Michael Bandler, MB&Co, Ltd. a/k/a Michael Bandler & Company v. Cohen Rosenthal & Kramer, LLP
Plaintiffs Michael Bandler and MB&Co, Ltd. (“corporation”) <br> bring an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s ruling that Bandler, a nonattorney, may not <br> represent corporation in this case. He argues that the trial court violated his due-process rights <br> by ruling on the basis of the parties’ respective written submissions on the issue of representation <br> without giving... More...
$0 (10-24-2015 - VT)Timothy Terry and Penny Terry v. William O'Brien and Susan Cain O'Brien
In the early 1980s, landlords William and Susan O’Brien purchased the subject <br> property, which is located in the Old North End of Burlington and includes a two-story house <br> and brick building (referred to as the creamery) with a common wall to the rear of the house. <br> The creamery has no fixtures and has never been inhabited. After landlords purchased the <br> property in 1982, the ... More...
$0 (10-24-2015 - VT)Timothy Terry and Penny Terry v. William O'Brien and Susan Cain O'Brien
In the early 1980s, landlords William and Susan O’Brien purchased the subject <br> property, which is located in the Old North End of Burlington and includes a two-story house <br> and brick building (referred to as the creamery) with a common wall to the rear of the house. <br> The creamery has no fixtures and has never been inhabited. After landlords purchased the <br> property in 1982, the... More...
$0 (10-23-2015 - VT)HIGHGATE HOUSING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP v. MELISSA ANDERSEN and NICHOLAS BLISS
Defendants began renting Unit #39 at 35 Skyline Drive in Barre in July of 2011 under a written lease as part of a HUD program involving rental assistance. At that time their share of monthly rental was $514. The written lease provided in Paragraph 4 that “The Landlord agrees to give the Tenant at least 30 days advance written notice of any increase in the Tenant’s rent except as noted in par... More...
$0 (10-23-2015 - VT)United States of America v. Patricia Merz and Christopher McGuigan
Burlington, VT - Patricia Merz And Christopher McGuigan Sentenced For Embezzling From Mother's Bennington Estate<br> <br> Patricia Merz, 58, of Niskayuna, New York, and her brother, Christopher McGuigan, 53, of Rutland, have been sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington following their convictions on federal fraud and conspiracy charges. Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Re... More...
$0 (07-28-2015 - VT)Christine LaMothe v. Christopher LeBlanc
¶ 1. REIBER, C.J. In a second appeal to this Court, father argues that the magistrate and the family division of the superior court erred on remand by not awarding him a credit for the entire lump-sum derivative Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefit given to mother as representative payee for the parties' son, by not imputing income to mother, and by granting mother a ... More...
$0 (06-12-2015 - VT)United States of America v. Paul Hendler
Burlington, VT - Paul Hendler, 43, of Taftsville, was sentenced in United States District Court in Brattleboro to 27 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to federal fraud charges. United States District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha ordered that Hendler serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term and pay restitution in the amount of $550,000. The co... More...
$0 (05-21-2015 - VT)United States of America v. Patricia Merz and Christopher McGuigan
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal jury in Burlington on Friday found Patricia Merz, 57, of Niskayuna, New York, guilty on charges of conspiracy, interstate transportation of stolen money, wire fraud and forgery after a three-day trial in U.S. District Court. The week before, Christopher McGuigan, 52, of Rutland, Merz's brother and co-def... More...
$0 (10-14-2014 - VT)United States of America v. Gregory Brusso
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Gregory Brusso, 57, of Hinesburg, Vermont, was sentenced on December 1, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 18-months imprisonment and a five-year period of supervised release following his conviction on one count of possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 225... More...
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