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Vermont Edition

Historic fraud led to Jay Peak’s auction. How will the resort's sale impact Vermont?

By Connor Cyrus,
Matthew F Smith
Published September 13, 2022 at 4:45 PM EDT
The green and blue leaf-shaped logo of ski resort Jay Peak atop a stone pile foundation sits in a field of green grass.
Wilson Ring
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AP
After an historic fraud sent the Jay Peak resort into federal receivership in 2016, a Utah-based ski conglomerate has bid $76 million for it. This hour, we'll put that fraud into context and ask the resort's president about the sale.

Live call-in discussion: A Utah ski conglomerate has bid $76 million for the Northeast Kingdom ski resort Jay Peak. This hour, host Connor Cyrus speaks with a reporter about the historic fraud that put the ski resort into receivership and with its president about what the sale means for hundreds of employees.

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Broadcast live at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus
Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.
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Matthew F Smith
Matt Smith worked for Vermont Public from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.
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