What’s Beneath Vermont’s Pretty Leaves?
Inside the Green Mountain State’s battle to copyright its hippy, crunchy image
9 min readJun 12, 2021
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In the fall of the year 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…