Served as special counsel to the receiver in the largest EB-5 fraud matter in US history, which involved more than 800 foreign investors being owed more than $400 million stemming from a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Miami businessman Ariel Quiros, the former owner of Jay Peak ski resort and Burke Mountain in Vermont. Work included handling the takedown of Ariel Quiros’s office in Miami and making the arguments to the Eleventh Circuit regarding the necessity of tying the payment of all settlement sums to the issuance of a bar order. Helped recover $150 million from Raymond James and $32 million from the MSK law firm, among others.
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