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Barry Honig has agreed to settle the Eloxx securities fraud suit and drop his counterclaim against a fellow high net worth investor John Winfield. This signals Honig or the company agreed to pay up on the stock he allegedly help cheat Winfield out of. Winfield was asking for as much as $2 million for his […]
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A New York federal judge threw out the Securities and Exchange Commission’s additional claims of MGT’s CEO, Robert Ladd, using his father’s stock trading account to benefit himself unbeknownst to MGT Capital Investment shareholders. But it’s not all rosy for the Bitcoin CEO because Judge Ramos ruled on January 27th that the SEC’s claims of […]
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Shareholders in a bitcoin company called RIOT Blockchain scored a win last week when New Jersey judge, Zahid Quraishi, ruled Barry Honig & his cohorts can be added back as named defendants in the securities fraud suit filed in New Jersey federal court. Previously the federal court had dismissed without prejudice defendant Honig, Andy Defrancesco’s […]
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An attorney for Laidlaw & Co was warned he could be sanctioned by SDNY’s Judge Woods today in an employment relationation lawsuit involving an African American stockbroker, George Calhoun, who sued the New York-based broker dealer for racial discrimination and having to work in a hostile environment. The attorney, Christopher Milazzo, of CMP LLP, and […]
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In September 2015 Barry Honig arranged for a stock list promotor to write favorable analysis on a company called Majesco ($COOL) and distribute it to thousands of main street investors, according to people interviewed by this reporter and familiar with the transaction. To allegedly get around SEC disclosure rules Honig promised to pay the promoter […]
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MabVax’s lawyers, Baker Botts, are not going to be able to collect attorney fees for the allegedly frivolous lawsuit Barry Honig’s deal attorney, Harvey Kesner, filed against the firm in purportedly retaliation for Baker Botts suing Kesner’s clients, like Honig, for their alleged role in manipulating the stock of Mabvax and destroying the company asset […]
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New York broker dealer Laidlaw & Company has been sued in federal court for violating a confidential settlement over a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a black broker who worked in their New York office from 2013-2019. The lawsuit filed on August 6, 2020 says Laidlaw agreed to pay George Calhoun $650,000 for workplace violations […]
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