A federal judge has denied a request by a Florida man convicted in the EB-5 scandal that played out in northern Vermont to shorten his time on court-ordered supervised release.
Judge Geoffrey Crawford issued a one-paragraph order Monday rejecting the request filed in June in U.S. District Court in Burlington by an attorney for William Kelly to end his three-year term of supervised release a year early.
Crawford wrote in the order that Kelly’s supervised release had been transferred in March 2024 to Florida, where Kelly, 76, resides. As a result, the judge added, Kelly could make a request to a federal court in Florida to change his period of supervised release.
Robert Goldstein, an attorney for Kelly, declined comment Tuesday.
Kelly, who prosecutors termed the “consummate fixer” who