A federal Justice of the Peace choose has signed an order requiring BitBoy Crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong to seem in Florida as a part of a standing convention associated to a lawsuit involving a number of crypto influencers.
In an April 12 submitting in america District Court docket for the Southern District of Florida, Choose Melissa Damian ordered Armstrong and his counsel to seem on April 20 together with the authorized staff representing the influencers. Based on the order, the convention was geared toward bringing consciousness of “Armstrong’s harassment in direction of plaintiffs’ counsel.”
Armstrong, together with a number of different YouTubers, have been named in a $1-billion lawsuit filed on March 15 for allegedly selling “FTX crypto fraud with out disclosing compensation.” Adam Moskowitz, representing plaintiff Edwin Garrison and others within the class-action lawsuit, has claimed that Armstrong harassed the authorized staff with “countless telephone calls, tweets and emails,” voicemails “filled with vulgarities,” and social media posts suggesting threats.
An April 5 submitting exhibiting trigger for a listening to with Armstrong detailed “day by day violent threats” by the YouTuber along with responses to emails with threats and insults earlier than being served with course of papers. The authorized staff additionally reported in a March 20 submitting that one in all Armstrong’s voicemails included the YouTuber allegedly threatening to encompass Moskowitz’s residence with protesters “24/7 day and evening.”
“The scope of the assaults (together with demise threats), which examples are offered in these filings and which proceed each day since, necessitated Undersigned Counsel to open an FBI investigation into Armstrong, in addition to the investigation recordsdata by native police authorities for Plaintiffs’ counsel and their households,” stated Moskowitz.
Twitter posts from Armstrong claimed the unique lawsuit relating to disclosure of compensation from FTX had “completely no benefit.” The crypto influencer isn’t any stranger to on-line controversy, recurrently insulting high-profile figures, together with European Central Financial institution president Christine Lagarde and being typically dismissive of the class-action lawsuit.
So let me get this straight… Adam Moskowitz frivolously attaches me falsely as a paid promoter of FTX, a website the place individuals lot EVERYTHING… many misplaced life financial savings. Many on brink of suicide.
And this fragile pussy claims he’s the one scared and in danger as a result of I name him names.
— Ben Armstrong (@Bitboy_Crypto) April 6, 2023
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In August 2022, Armstrong filed a defamation swimsuit in opposition to YouTuber Erling Mengshoel Jr. — also referred to as Atozy — in response to a video Mengshoel posted claiming that “This YouTuber scams his followers… Bitboy Crypto.” Armstrong dropped the lawsuit after Mengshoel raised greater than $200,000 in a marketing campaign for his protection in lower than 24 hours.
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