Roche Freedman is asked for by Tether. Be Fired From Your Role As Counsel

As the beleaguered rogue cryptocurrency lender Celsius filed a motion with the United States Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday to allow consumers who have digital assets stored in particular accounts to withdraw them.

he company requested that withdrawals be reopened for a subset of its customers.

However, there is a catch: the motion will only apply to Custody and Withold Accounts, as well as assets held in custody whose value does not exceed $7,575 at the time of its implementation.

Customers are able to keep their legal ownership of cryptocurrencies thanks to the Custody and Withhold Accounts offered by Celsius. These accounts serve the same purpose as digital wallets and may be used to store cryptocurrency.

This ownership does not, however, apply to assets that are held in accounts that provide yearly crypto earnings or lending services (Earn and Borrow accounts). In any event, Celsius has submitted paperwork to reopen withdrawals for a subset of its customers.

Greenfield stated that Roche's comments on the CryptoLeaks website generated a "severe worry" that Roche "may be abusing the discovery process" and "misusing material" learned via litigation: Greenfield stated that Roche's remarks on the CryptoLeaks website generated a "severe worry" that Roche "may be abusing the discovery process" and "m

"He claims that he is Ava Lab's "crypto specialist" due to the fact that he "sues half of the firms in the industry" and "know[s] where this market is heading" because he has "seen the insides of every single crypto company."

Greenfield stated that the issues are very relevant to the case, and he pointed out that Roche Freedman LLP "has issued a series of document requests seeking material that has no obvious relation to the claims and defenses in this complaint." Greenfield stated that the issues are very relevant to the case.

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emphasized the significance of maintaining the confidentiality of the documents, stating that "they contain not only confidential, competitively sensitive information about Defendants' businesses, but also information that, if disclosed, would jeopardize the privacy and security of Defendants and their customers."

Despite the fact that Kyle Roche and others have submitted motions to withdraw from the action, Greenfield has noted that Roche's withdrawal "does little, if anything, to address the significant questions about the likely misuse of discovery:"

"Even if he were to no longer be counsel of record, he would still be able to access the discovery materials, he would maintain the capacity to dictate the conduct of other lawyers at his firm, and he would profit from any potential recovery in this litigation,"

Greenfield continued by stating that the "removal would not harm Plaintiffs" because the plaintiffs will be represented by "two other substantial and experienced companies," namely Selendy Gay Elsberg PLLC and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP. Greenfield also stated that the "removal would not harm the defendants."

According to a class-action complaint that was submitted in 2019, Tether and Bitfinex were accused of engaging in market manipulation by releasing unbacked USDT "in an effort to signal to the market that there was massive, organic demand for crypto goods." This allegation was made in connection with the release of USDT.

In recent days, Roche has decided to pull out of the case involving Binance, Solana, Tron, BitMEX, Nexo, and Dfinity as well. The most recent development is that Tether has asked Roche Freedman, the law firm, to be relieved of its role as counsel.

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Chris Eberechi

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Samuel Jephtar 1 y

Great job

 
 
Abiola Issa Mukaila 2 yrs

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