Vt. Stat. tit. 13 § 2006
A person shall not knowingly make to a person, company, or corporation, or to a commercial agency, a false statement in writing signed by himself, herself, or by his or her direction, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting his or her financial condition, or the financial ability to pay of himself, herself, or other person, company, or corporation in which he or she is financially interested or by which he or she is employed as manager, secretary, or superintendent, for the purpose of procuring in any form the delivery of personal property, the payment of cash, the making of a loan or credit, the extension of a credit, the discount of an account receivable, or the making, acceptance, discount, sale, or indorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, for the benefit of himself, herself, or such other person, company, or corporation.
13 V.S.A. § 2006