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Article: THE BRAND CALLED VERMONT HOW THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE CORNERED THE MARKET ON PURITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2003
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The brand called Vermont How the Green Mountain state cornered the
market on purity By Paul Greenberg
Paul Greenberg is author of the novel "Leaving Katya." His fiction
also appears in the new anthology "Wild East: Stories from the Last
Frontier" (Justin, Charles & Co.).
IN THE FALL OF 2000, a federal judge sentenced one Mr. Lyman
Jenkins, president of Vermont Country Maple Inc., to 46 months in
prison and awarded $342,624 in damages to his victims. His crime?
Twenty felony counts of mail, wire, and tax fraud in a scheme to
adulterate pure maple syrup with cheap cane and beet sugar.
Jenkins was not the first to run afoul of Vermont's government-
enforced standards. Kingsey Cheese of Vermont, ...