The film at the core of a Vermont fraud case has been completed and released, opening a pathway for hundreds of wronged investors to recover some of what they lost.
Well-known Vermont storyteller Malcolm Mac Parker raised $28 million for the meditative art film, Birth of Innocence, which cost about $1 million to make.
Parker s silent partner and spiritual mentor, Louis Soteriou, spent more than $4 million of the money on luxury hotels and cars as he pursued a spiritual quest he believed would allow him to transcend earthly life and travel through space and time, the Free Press reported at the time of his sentencing.