The Church Board Conspiracy: Embezzlement in Echo Valley

When the tiny community of Echo Valley, Vermont discovered their beloved church board had embezzled over $2 million from elderly parishioners, it revealed a decade-long scheme of manipulation and fraud. This episode investigates how three prominent church leaders exploited their positions of trust, the sophisticated financial deception they employed, and the devastating impact on the town's most vulnerable residents. We explore the complex web of relationships that allowed the fraud to continue and how the investigation threatened to tear the community apart.