Taxpayers may fund Quiros' defense as current legal team moves to exit Jay Peak fraud case

Ariel Quiros may soon be looking for a new legal team.

Though Jay Peak’s former owner told a judge during a video hearing Friday he likely won’t be able to afford it.

The lead lawyer representing Quiros for a year since federal charges were brought accusing him of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a collapsed biomedical research center project in Vermont has requested to withdraw from the case.

Seth Levine, a lawyer with Levine Lee LLP based in New York City and who has been heading Quiros’ defense team, filed a motion this week seeking to withdraw his representation, citing a “breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.”

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