Class Action Lawsuit Against Cryptsy Now Targets Coinbase
A lawsuit filed against Coinbase alleges the money transmitter did not fulfil its regulatory requirements to do its due diligence and investigate Mr. Vernon’s activity and his Coinbase accounts. Coinbase Accounts Allegedly Held Stolen Funds. When $8.2 million in customer funds went missing from Cryptsy user accounts in 2014-15, a class action lawsuit was....
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One of the defendants in the class action lawsuit against Cryptsy cryptocurrency exchange, Lorie Ann Nettles enters into a settlement agreement involving liquidation of almost all of her assets. There have been few new developments in the ongoing class action lawsuit against the now defunct cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptsy. The Bitcoin exchange based out of Florida stopped its operations earlier this year. At the time of shutting down, the platform allegedly had accommodated liabilities of over $10 million, of which $5 million belonged to the customers. The class action lawsuit was filed....
As the situation surrounding Crypsy continues to unfold, we saw the company post a blog entry stating that the majority of the funds within the company were stolen over a year ago and that that company has been insolvent for quite some time for a variety of reasons, one mainly being the theft of 13,000 BTC and 300,000 LTC. This announcement was coincidentally made just a day after Cryptsy was informed that a class-action lawsuit was being filed against them. So now what? Currently, Cryptsy seems to be in too big of a financial hole to dig itself out no matter what happens and is....
Coinbase faces a class action lawsuit against its involvement in the Cryptsy fiasco. Read more... Coinbase is courting one trouble after another. Following the latest issue with the IRS, the cryptocurrency company has another legal challenge to face. This time, it is a class action lawsuit by Silver Law Group and Wites & Kapetan regarding the platform’s alleged involvement in $8 Million theft by Cryptsy’s promoter Paul Vernon. The nationwide class action lawsuit against Coinbase has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. According to....
In what has been one strange and cryptic piece of news after another about the troubles that Cryptsy and its founder have been surrounded by, an update of the class action lawsuit against them has been released and it expands the subjects of whom is liable for the lost assets over the past year and a half. In what seems to be a mixture of both information compiled from Cryptsy’s last updates of their blog, the founder Paul Vernon’s Twitter account and some individually investigated findings, the class-action lawsuit’s updates increase the level of criminal allegations against Cryptsy....
A Florida judge has certified a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers of the now-defunct digital currency exchange Cryptsy. In an order issued yesterday, US District Judge Kenneth Marra approved a request by plaintiffs for class action certification, originally filed on 27th July. According to the order, the certification covers all Cryptsy account holders as of 1st November, 2015. Specifically, it includes anyone "who held bitcoins, alternative cryptocurrencies or any other form of monies or currency" prior to that date on the exchange. The lawsuit dates back to....