John Van Vught News Today

Northfield man denies embezzling nearly $600,000 as new documents reveal how he spent his nearly year on the run, including working as an accountant in Georgia.

BURLINGTON — A Northfield man, who officials say embezzled about $560,000 from an Upper Connecticut Valley non-profit, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Wednesday to three

BURLINGTON — A Northfield man, who officials say embezzled about $560,000 from an Upper Connecticut Valley nonprofit, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Wednesday to three

A Northfield man wanted for allegedly embezzling more than $500,000 from a nonprofit organization that was working to bring broadband to central Vermont has been charged and arrested after nearly a year on the run, according to court records.An...

A Northfield man was arrested in Georgia for allegedly embezzling over $500,000 from a nonprofit organization working to install fiber internet in central Vermont.

BURLINGTON — John Van Vught, a former accountant for ValleyNet, a non-profit operating in the Upper Valley, was arrested on Friday in Brunswick, Georgia. According to court records, on May 11, the federal grand jury in Burlington returned a three-count wire fraud indictment related to Van Vught’s embezzlement of $560,000 from ValleyNet. Van Vught performed

An indictment was unsealed Monday in federal court in Burlington charging John Van Vught with wire fraud. The indictment was unsealed, court records show, following Van Vught’s arrest in Brunswick, Georgia.

A Northfield man is charged with embezzling from a nonprofit he did accounting work for.

ROYALTON — A Vermont Superior Court judge has ordered ECFiber operator ValleyNet to be paid a total of nearly $2 million in damages stemming from losses it suffered in the embezzlement of the company’s coffers, although how much of that sum —...

Whether or not John Van Vught will be criminally charged for embezzling his employer likely depends on whether he will ever be located.