Former Jay Peak Employee Accused of Stealing More Than $70,000 From Secure Vault

The Vermont State Police have accused a vault supervisor at Jay Peak Resort, Vermont, of allegedly stealing more than $70,000 from a secure vault room at the mountain.

Lisa Gaylor, 41, police said, took cash in smaller increments ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 at a time from the safe between the fall of 2025 and the spring of 2026. The amount taken totaled $70,790, according to police. 

Gaylor was taken into custody on July 22 and later released, police said. The Boston Globe reported that she’s set to be arraigned on an embezzlement charge on August 25.

A spokesperson for Jay Peak said Gaylor no longer works at the ski area and directed other questions to the police, according to CBS. 

The case follows a more dramatic financial scandal that came to light at Jay Peak a decade ago when its then-owners were accused of running a Ponzi-style scheme and defrauding foreign investors to the tune of $200 million. The scandal ended up being Vermont’s largest fraud case. 

Afterward, the resort went into federal receivership but has since been bought by Pacific Group Resorts, which also owns Wintergreen Resort in Virginia and Mount Washington Alpine Resort in British Columbia.

Earlier this year, Jackson, Wyoming’s town hill, Snow King, faced an embezzlement case of its own when a former accountant for the ski area was accused of using payroll and vendor invoices to steal over $45,000. 

In Colorado, a former Aspen Skiing Co. executive was sentenced to six years of prison time in 2020 after he stole and sold millions of dollars worth of company-owned skis, but was later released from a halfway house in 2022.

Some cases of fraud happen outside ski resorts but involve skiing. 

In 2025, Utah officials charged a man with fraudulently selling millions of dollars worth of ski passes. The passes were purchased at full price for skiers via stolen credit cards. The skiers in turn paid the accused and others a “discounted” price via online payments, the District of Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office said at the time.

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