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Ben Armstrong was ordered to look successful Florida tribunal to code allegations helium threatened and harassed lawyers down a class-action suit against him and different crypto influencers.
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A national magistrate justice has signed an bid requiring 'BitBoy Crypto' YouTuber Ben Armstrong to look successful Florida arsenic portion of a presumption league related to a suit involving respective crypto influencers.
In an April 12 filing successful United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Melissa Damian ordered Armstrong and his counsel to look connected April 20 on with the ineligible squad representing the influencers. According to the order, the league was aimed astatine bringing consciousness of “Armstrong’s harassment towards plaintiffs’ counsel.”
Armstrong, on with respective different YouTubers, were named successful a $1-billion lawsuit filed connected March 15 for allegedly promoting “FTX crypto fraud without disclosing compensation.” Adam Moskowitz, representing plaintiff Edwin Garrison and others successful the people enactment lawsuit, has claimed that Armstrong harassed the ineligible squad with “endless telephone calls, tweets and emails,” voicemails “full of vulgarities,” and societal media posts suggesting threats.
An April 5 filing showing origin for a proceeding with Armstrong elaborate “daily convulsive threats” by the YouTuber successful summation to responses to emails with threats and insults earlier being served with process papers. The ineligible squad besides reported successful a March 20 filing that 1 of Armstrong’s voicemails included the YouTuber allegedly threatening to situation Moskowitz’s location with protesters “24/7 time and night.”
"The scope of the attacks (including decease threats), which examples are provided successful those filings and which proceed connected a regular ground since, necessitated Undersigned Counsel to unfastened an FBI probe into Armstrong, arsenic good arsenic the probe files by section constabulary authorities for Plaintiffs' counsel and their families," said Moskowitz.
Twitter posts from Armstrong claimed the archetypal suit regarding disclosure of compensation from FTX had “absolutely nary merit.” The crypto influencer is nary alien to online controversy, regularly insulting high-profile figures, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and being mostly dismissive of the people enactment lawsuit.
So fto maine get this straight… Adam Moskowitz frivolously attaches maine falsely arsenic a paid promoter of FTX, a tract wherever radical batch EVERYTHING… galore mislaid beingness savings. Many connected brink of suicide.
And this fragile pussy claims helium is the 1 frightened and astatine hazard due to the fact that I telephone him names.
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In August 2022, Armstrong filed a defamation suit against YouTuber Erling Mengshoel Jr — besides known arsenic ‘Atozy’ — successful effect to a video Mengshoel posted claiming that “This YouTuber scams his fans… Bitboy Crypto.” Armstrong dropped the lawsuit aft Mengshoel raised much than $200,000 successful a run for his defence successful little than 24 hours.
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