BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: The District of Vermont announced that Dennis Duffy II, 40, of South Burlington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 12 months and one day of imprisonment following his guilty plea to loan fraud and money laundering. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Duffy serve two years of supervised relea  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, Nikolas P. Kerest, issued the following news release on March 17, 2023: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that David Conrad, 42, of Bristol, Vermont was arrested yesterday following his indictment for conducting a wire fraud scheme between approximately January of 2022 and February 28, 2023. Conrad will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Kev  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, Nikolas P. Kerest, issued the following news release on March 17, 2023: The United States Attorney's Office stated that Brittany Busby, 31, formerly of Washington, Vermont, was sentenced on March 15, 2023 in United States District Court in Rutland to 28 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to distributing fentanyl. U.S. Chief District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that Busby serve three years of s  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, Nikolas P. Kerest, issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: The U.S Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont and Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice today announced a settlement agreement with the Twin Valley School District in Vermont to resolve its investigation into complaints of student-on-student harassment based on race and sex. The department's investigation revealed that the school d  more