In 2016 federal officials seized Burke Mountain Resort in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where Lyn and Debbie hold season ski passes, and accused the resort’s owner of a $200 million fraud. A Miami lawyer was appointed by a federal judge to unravel the fraud and oversee the property, but by the end of 2024 – nearly nine years later – the resort was falling apart and offers to buy it had been snubbed by the lawyer, whose overall “professional fees” of $12 million exceeded the value of the resort. Lyn wanted to force the government to sell the resort, one of the region’s major employers, so it could survive. The results of his investigation were published in January 2025 by The North Star Monthly, a small rural newspaper in Danville, not far from Burke. A few weeks later the Miami lawyer said he had suddenly found a viable buyer. A purchase offer was accepted in April, and in May the resort was sold to a group of investors with ties to Burke Mountain Academy, an elite ski school on the mountain where Mikaela Shiffrin was a student and perfected her skills. She has won more professional ski races worldwide than anyone, male or female.