FTX influencers in difficulties, while consultants collect $ 103 million in the first quarter
FTX influencers in difficulties, while consultants collect $ 103 million in the first quarter
A handful of influencers who are famous for their personal financial expertise on YouTube are hunted hard by victims who lost their assets in the collapse of FTX.
One of them is the crypto youtuber Tom Nash-a lawsuit was sent to him via a tweet after a judge of the district court of Florida from the Moskowitz law firm had given permission to comply.
served on Twitter
Nash, a resident of Sydney, is one of the ten defendants who are mentioned in a class action lawsuit in which it is claimed that influencers have played an “important role” in the FTX scandal. It also means that the crypto exchange would not have risen to such heights without its support and its "hype". Although these influencers advertise and in return are “considerable”, they failed to disclose their remuneration.
@amtomesse Collection against you in the Southern District of Florida, the following was sent to you: https://t.co/28yjq2sky5
- The law firm Moskowitz (@moskowitzesq) 2. May 2023
Nash was the only refused among the various defendants, including Kevin Paffrath, Graham Stephan, Andrei Jikh and Jaspreet Singh.
In addition, the Youtuber and Crypto twitter personality Ben Armstrong (also known as Bitboy Crypto), who was also mentioned in the lawsuit, missed a appearance ordered by a federal judge last month. He even went so far openly mock the Federal judge and tweeted pictures of itself on the beach the same day when he was intended for an ordered court date.
The main attorney, which in this case represents-Moscowitz-claimed that Armstrong had assumed the legal team with "endless phone calls, tweets and emails", voicemails "full vulgarities" and social media contributions. The judge later banned this Twitter about Moskowitz Case.
consultant in the millions
ftx collided over ten days last November when his disagreemented CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was under house arrest in October in October. The former manager is accused of being a mastermind in a long time, in which billions of dollars of FTX customer funds were used for personal editions and risky bets about the sister trade house of the stock exchange, Alameda Research.
The victims have lost millions of funds, but the consultants who supervise the ruins of the FTX Group are reportedly in the first quarter of $ 103 million.
Five companies-Sullivan & Cromwell, Alvarez & Marshal, Alixpartners, Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Landis Rath & Cobb-FTX invited a total of $ 36.4 million in March alone. The salary checks for these five law firms for January and February, on the other hand, amounted to $ 34.2 million or $ 32.5 million
The New York company Sullivan & Cromwell has taken the largest invoice of $ 14.1 million into charges and expenses for March, which corresponds to a total of $ 44.4 million in the first quarter.
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