Receiver settles with lawyers in EB-5 fraud case
Modified: 12/31/2020 8:08:40 PM
After nearly three years of legal wrangling, 23 foreign investors in the scandal-plagued Jay Peak projects have settled with their former immigration attorneys, Carroll & Scribner, according to an agreement provided by the parties.
The immigrant investors sued Ed Carroll and Mark Scribner, claiming the two attorneys gave the developers of Jay Peak the legal tools to hoodwink them.
The Burlington-based firm had a built-in conflict of interest: Carroll & Scribner served both as corporate attorneys for Jay Peak and as immigration attorneys for the investors.
In a lawsuit filed in 2018, investors alleged negligence, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.
Last summer, mobile wireless company Mint Mobile briefly joined the streaming wars.
The company ran a commercial introducing Mint Mobile+, offering users a single movie, “Foolproof,” a 2003 comedy starring Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds, who owns a majority stake in Mint Mobile, said on Twitter that the service was being discontinued just a few minutes after its launch announcement. “Our crack data team has already determined Mint Mobile + should probably be shut down by the weekend. We’ll go back to focusing on premium wireless…”
The ad was a gag. But parodying the addition of a plus sign to a brand name reflects how it has become the go-to symbol for media conglomerates when they christen their emerging video-on-demand streaming businesses.
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