Quiros laptop to be searched in Jay Peak fraud investigation

A federal judge has approved a process to search information from Ariel Quiros’ personal laptop to determine if he used it to conduct any business associated with investor fraud allegations leveled against him in development projects in northern Vermont.

Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver overseeing properties at the center of the largest alleged fraud case in the state’s history, recently asked the judge hearing the federal case against Quiros to allow him to hire a “third-party” to “inspect” the laptop information.

A third-party review, according to the filing, would protect any privileged, or attorney-client material, that may be on the computer from being disclosed to the receiver, or the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which leveled the investor fraud allegations.

Judge Darrin P. Gayles, who presides over the civil case in U.S. District Court in Miami, approved the request late last week.

Read more: http://vtdigger.org/2016/10/27/quiros-laptop-searched/