Alleged Mt. Gox Victim Files Class Action Lawsuit, Now His Lawyers Speak Out
The fallout from Mt. Gox's 28th February bankruptcy filing is already in full swing, as one bitcoin investor has filed a class action lawsuit in Chicago on behalf of the alleged victims of the troubled Japan-based exchange and its CEO, Mark Karpeles. Gregory Greene and his lawyer Steven Woodrow, a partner at the Edelson law firm in Denver, Colorado, filed a complaint against Mt. Gox and Karpeles in the U. S. District Court on Thursday, claiming the company was fraudulent and negligent in its failure to protect customers against theft. Woodrow, who submitted the lawsuit to the Northern....
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