And then something weird happened. So I am still remarkably upset about {D}’s little claiming-to-be-one-of-his-own-victims bit from what I will note again is clearly his office, which appears to be in a state building in a state where he is not employed by the state or on any record as a contractor or vendor or anything.
Failure to supervise an employee is a real thing. This is an actual possible lawsuit, as he was impersonating a victim when he did it from the office. I have talked to the ISP owner, and they have been incredibly helpful in helping narrow where this could have come from. State offices was the answer.
I did some public records requests trying to get rosters for employees and non-employees at the offices there. He isn’t on the list. The dude I talked to, super nice and super helpful and whatnot, it was a few months ago.
Yesterday I was going through public primary sources to give to the arbitrator regarding EB5, just as a framework of here is the story that surrounds the possible perjury issue. One of them, a civil case against the regulators, {D} being the first-named defendant.
But then I saw another name I recognized. It’s the dude from the public records request who gave me the roster and was so helpful. Okay.
So I, of course being me, go, well, it won’t hurt to ask, right? So I was like, this is who I’m looking at. You guys were codefendants, so you obviously know each other, right?
He has no idea who {D} is. Does not know. I was being a little careful and just referred to him by his first name, but said he was the first defendant and the only one with that first name.
That was fucking weird, you know? Like that goes down as an odd little exchange.
These Vermont people are very evasive. I’m just saying. Nevada will just pretend they don’t hear you or see you. Vermont? They acknowledge you but will not give you a damn thing, and they will deny ever having any knowledge of or part in anything.
Rats in fucking suits, man. Seriously. Rats in suits.
Methinks I just did a great job arguing to get the EB5 into discovery. I had four interrogatories left. {D} and I had one weekend in March 2024, a very weird and intense weekend in Utah.
The week before, {D} had been out of town at a conference. He came back and had a hickey on his neck. I started sobbing. He then tried to calm me down by performing oral on me while I cried and punched him in the head and told him I hated him.
Then he announces he is going skiing the following weekend in Utah, and I of course yell, “Who will you be fucking there?” and then he invited me to come with him. I had never been skiing before. I am desperately uncoordinated and injury-prone. It always seemed to just be an injury waiting to happen with me. But we went.
It is Friday. I get to {D}’s place and he is droopy and gray. He is super quiet, voice almost at a whisper, not even his low growl. Something was very wrong.
That day, March 28, 2024, is when the Auditor’s Report came out on the Jay Peak EB5 scandal. What the hell is that? It was a Ponzi scheme. Hundreds of millions of dollars were lost. It can and should be described as the biggest regulatory failure in Vermont history.
Take a guess who was one of the regulators. That’s right. He was general counsel.
We sat in this dingy, run-down motel room in Utah and we talked. The ice machine was broken, the refrigerator didn’t work, and there were actual legitimate cum stains on the carpet. So we sat on opposite beds and sipped warm liquor out of plastic cups, and he tells me everything.
So {D} proceeds to explain the Ponzi scheme and SEC investigation and the issues, the memos, and the eventual fallout. He neglected to mention the possible perjury issues, but such is life. He then tells me he eventually had to go, as did his boss. The new guy, who had been the Deputy Commissioner, wanted {D} gone. {D} told me he and his boss had been trying to blame that guy, who by the way is now the treasurer of the state. He was obviously not fond of {D} because of that and could not trust him to be his general counsel.
Now all of this makes sense. I’m still not completely understanding why he would think he could keep his job. If you have a financial regulatory scandal, generally the first rule of thumb is, you know, fire all the top people at the department that deals with financial regulation, in this case the actual Department of Financial Regulation. I mean, come on, why would you expect to keep your job? That is just how you do that. I mean, case in point, I don’t know exactly what happened at Nevada DOI, but anyone who was upper level is no longer there. Clean sweep. I don’t pretend to know whose decision that was, but I would love to know, actually, if anyone wanted to tell me.
Anyways, it was an intense night. {D} was vulnerable. He is not generally like that. Like, this was a huge thing that happened in his life and he still wasn’t over it, you know.
And then of course the following day he would actually attempt to kill me by taking me up a mountain I couldn’t get down. I had to be sledded off the mountain by ski patrol. So it was a super fucking weird weekend.
Now one of the weirder things that went down in relation to this was actually that prior weekend at the conference. {D} had told me he was with his old boss that weekend. I have a text where he calls her a crusty old lesbian and says they’re hanging out. I don’t know and can’t imply what he was doing that weekend, but if we remember the beginnings of this story, it involved conduct that would result in a hickey.
The boss angle makes less sense when you realize the key issue in this case was a memo {D} wrote for his boss. It warned about what was happening. She testified under oath that she never received that memo. {D} testified under oath that he gave the memo to her himself. This is still a question. There is no answer or anything. So who is telling the truth? And why are you hanging out together a week before the final report comes out?
Interesting questions, right?
Well, I felt the need to ask about some of this in discovery for the lawsuit. Like, I’ve followed up on some of this stuff and some things he told me don’t make sense. So did he lie to me? Did he lie to them? Did he lie on the witness stand? The stories are different. Which, trust me, is not the first time I found out the story was different or not based on any provable fact.
I just had to argue all of this with the lawyer. I feel pretty good about my arguments and, truthfully, a little cocky. I kinda owned her ass on those. I think I did good. I don’t know for certain, but my arguments were valid and clear, and I was able to reframe everything to being about something he had specifically chosen to disclose to me.
We will find out. I have a feeling I won that. And I want to taunt them or otherwise make them feel bad themselves for losing to a pro se litigant on that complex argument.
Told you I could out-lawyer you, {D}. We shall see what the arbitrator says.
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