United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Judgment for $95 million in Michael Pearson, Andrew Childe and Anna Silver, all of FFP, on behalf of and solely in their capacities as Joint Official Liquidators of Diversified Real Estate Development Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), GMS Global Market Step Up Note Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), Preferred Income Collateralized Interest Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), Sentinel Investment Fund SPC (in Official Liquidation), SG Strategic Income Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), Sports Aficionados Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), Vanguardia Group Inc. (in Official Liquidation), and Michael Pearson, on behalf of and solely in his capacity as Liquidator of Sentinel Mandate and Escrow Ltd. (in Liquidation), Vanguardia Holdings Ltd. (in Liquidation), Spyglass Investment Management Ltd. (in Liquidation), North Pointe Holdings (BVI) Ltd. (in Liquidation), Biscayne Capital Holdings Limited (in Creditor Voluntary Liquidation), and Biscayne Capital (B.V.I.) Ltd. (in Liquidation) v. Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., Deutsche Bank Switzerland, and Deutsche Bank Trust Companies Americas at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Motion for Statutory Restraining Order regarding an alleged fraud involving, inter alia, a “Cryptocurrency Pool” and an “FX Pool” – both domiciled in the Cayman Islands – in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Systematic Alpha Management LLC and Peter Kambolin, as Defendants, and Jersey City Partners LLC and Thor Enterprises International Inc., of Nevis, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging fraud involving, inter alia, a "Cryptocurrency Pool" and an "FX Pool" - both domiciled in the Cayman Islands - in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Systematic Alpha Management LLC and Peter Kambolin, as Defendants, and Jersey City Partners LLC and Thor Enterprises International Inc., of Nevis, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Second Amended Complaint alleging "improper commercial activities, including the illegal misappropriation of millions of dollars of Plaintiffs' bank-deposited funds in an elaborate money laundering scheme", in Oleg Zhukovskiy, described as "a U.S. permanent resident"; ZUKK Trading Limited, of Cyprus; Intertransgroup LLC, of Ukraine; Nikolay Kovzel, a citizen of Ukraine, and Vitaly Didylivsky, a citizen of Ukraine v. National Bank of Ukraine at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Criminal Information alleging fraud involving Moonwalkers Trading Limited, described as "a South African entity that marketed itself as a provider of software-based "market-making" services for crypto assets", and Hydrogen Technology Corporation in USA v. Tyler Ostern at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Alley Maass Rogers & Lindsay PA, a Florida law firm v. Pretzel Limited, of Malta, and Pecunia Business Development Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Complaint in Proceedings Supplementary to Execution in Supreme Fuels Trading FZE, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates v. Harry Sargeant III at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application for an order authorizing the disclosure of Grand Jury materials (BAC Florida Bank records) to Panama for use in a criminal investigation into Héctor Dáger, described as "a Venezuelan citizen with Panamanian residency permit", for "potential corruption and money laundering relating to contracts obtained by the Brazilian company Odebrecht S.A. from the government of Venezuela".

Order denying defendants' motions to dismiss a complaint alleging "a crypto asset pump-and-dump scheme" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda; Cryptobontix Inc., of Canada; Troy R.J. Hogg, of Canada; James L. Goldberg, Stephen L. Braverman, and Max W. Barber, as Defendants, and SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Complaint alleging "Defendant stole cryptocurrency from Plaintiff valued at $2,215,118 pursuant to a sophisticated global internet cryptocurrency fraud and conversion scheme" in Benjamin Arthur Bowen v. Xingzhao Li, a.k.a. Aida Top, a.k.a. Yang Lei Lei, described as "a foreign defendant in China", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Michael Sizemore, Mikey Vongdara, and Rudy Vazquez v. Changpeng Zhao, described as a citizen of Canada residing in Dubai, UAE; Binance Holdings Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Binance Holdings (IE) Limited, of Ireland; Binance (Services) Holdings Limited, of Ireland; BAM Trading Services Inc., of Delaware; Jimmy Butler, a professional basketball player; Graham Stephan, described as "a YouTube star with over 4.1 million subscribers to his YouTube pages", and Ben Armstrong, described as "a YouTuber with more than 1.5 million subscribers to his YouTube page", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging fraud involving "sponsorship agreements" in Rokit World Inc, of Delaware, and Rokit World Limited, of Ireland v. Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, Claire Williams, Michael O'Driscoll, and Doug Lafferty, all of England, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in AE Capital Group LLC v. No-H20 USA Inc., described as "the United States arm of an Irish car-wash franchising company, NO-H2O Holding Limited", and Emmet O'Brien, described as a citizen of Ireland residing in Florida, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Plaintiffs' Request for Status Conference regarding "Harassment Towards Counsel" by defendant Ben Armstrong, a.k.a. 'BitBoy Crypto', in Edwin Garrison, Gregg Podalsky, Skyler Lindeen, Alexander Chernyavsky, Sunil Kavuri, Gary Gallant, and David Nicol v. Kevin Paffrath, Graham Stephan, Andrei Jikh, Jaspreet Singh, Brian Jung, Jeremy Lefebvre, Tom Nash, Ben Armstrong, Erika Kullberg, and Creators Agency LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in M/Y Water Jump II, described as "a 2015 70’ Baia Motor Yacht" described as "a documented vessel of the British Virgin Islands"; Water Jump Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Torrey Pines Stable Florida Corp., of Florida, and Eric A. Lamaze, a retired Canadian show jumper and Olympic gold medalist, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint for $385,427 "for the sale and delivery of aviation fuel and services" in Associated Energy Group LLC, of Texas v. Ukraine International Airlines PJSC, of Ukraine, described as "the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ukraine", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging crypto promotional fraud by "FTX Influencers", most of whom were described as 'YouTube stars', in Edwin Garrison, of Oklahoma; Gregg Podalsky, of Florida; Skyler Lindeen, of Florida; Alexander Chernyavsky, of Florida; Sunil Kavuri, of the United Kingdom; Gary Gallant, of Canada, and David Nicol, of Australia v. Kevin Paffrath, Graham Stephan, Andrei Jikh, Jaspreet Singh, Brian Jung, Jeremy Lefebvre, Tom Nash, of Australia; Ben Armstrong, Erika Kullberg, and Creators Agency LLC, described as a Delaware-domiciled, Japan-based "talent management firm and digital ad network which promoted FTX", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Criminal Information in USA v. Muhammad Umer Khan at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Ryan Breslow, of the U.S. Virgin Islands; Alex Fine, of California, and Jon Gordon, of Texas v. Mark Phillips, of Texas, and Benjamin Reed, of Florida, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Asset Freeze Motion in in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. BKCoin Management LLC, of Delaware, and Min Woo Kang, of New York, as Defendants, and BKCoin Capital LP, a.k.a. the Legacy Fund, of Delaware; BK Offshore Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Master Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund LP, of Delaware; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Bison Digital LLC, of Wyoming, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint "to prevent further fraud and misappropriation of investor money" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. BKCoin Management LLC, of Delaware, and Min Woo Kang, of New York, as Defendants, and BKCoin Capital LP, a.k.a. the Legacy Fund, of Delaware; BK Offshore Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Master Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund LP, of Delaware; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Bison Digital LLC, of Wyoming, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging negligent misrepresentation involving a crypto investment in Onelia Ann Vera and Perry Kent Littrell Jr. v. Nexo Financial LLC, Nexo Inc., of the Cayman Islands, and Nexo Capital Inc., of the Cayman Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint for allegedly "aiding and abetting" an alleged $8 billion fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto group the defendants in Connor O'Keefe v. Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Silvergate Bank, Signature Bank, Deltec Bank and Trust Company Limited, described as "an offshore bank licensed and operating in The Bahamas"; Farmington State Bank, d.b.a. Moonstone Bank; Jean Chalopin, described as "a banking executive domiciled in The Bahamas"; Thomas Bravo LP, Paradigm Operations LP, Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, of Singapore; Softbank Vision Fund (AIV M2) L.P., Ribbit Capital, L.P., Altimeter Capital Management, LP, Multicoin Capital Management LLC, Tiger Global Management, LLC, Sino Global Capital Limited, of the Bahamas; Fenwick & West LLP, Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, and Armanino, LLP at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Clara Moussa Boustany to take discovery from Antonio Ellek for use in "divorce proceedings her husband, Fadi Boustany, initiated in Monaco in 2022", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Samuel Tcherassi to take discovery from Yolanda Luz Janna Raad for use in criminal proceedings in Colombia involving allegations of forgery and fraud, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Class Action Complaint in Joshua Berdugo v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, Tyler Winklevoss, and Cameron Winklevoss at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Defendant Stephen Braverman's Motion to Dismiss in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda; Cryptobontix Inc., of Canada; Troy R.J. Hogg, of Canada; James L. Goldberg, Stephen L. Braverman, and Max W. Barber, as Defendants, and SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Defendant James Goldberg's Motion to Dismiss in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda; Cryptobontix Inc., of Canada; Troy R.J. Hogg, of Canada; James L. Goldberg, Stephen L. Braverman, and Max W. Barber, as Defendants, and SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Joshua Berdugo v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, Tyler Winklevoss, and Cameron Winklevoss at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Carolina Andraus Lane, a citizen of Brazil, to take discovery from RBC Wealth Management, AZ Apice Capital Management LLC, and EFG Capital International Corp. for use in legal proceedings in Brazil against her "former husband and business partner", Gilberto Miranda Batista, described as "a Senator for the state of Amazon, Brazil", at the time, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Bahamas Island Consortium Limited and Mirko Kovats, described as "an international real estate investor who has lived in the Bahamas for over 25 years", to take discovery from Southern Cross Developments International LLC, Jeremy Seabridge, Greg Norman Developments, Greg Norman Golf Company, Greg Norman Golf Course Design Company, and Greg Norman Holdings for use in legal proceedings in the Bahamas, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Andrea Custodio, a resident of Uruguay, to take discovery from PNC Bank, Santander Bank, BB&T Corporation, Citigroup Inc., HSBC USA Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Consolid Travel LLC, Joaquin Navasal, Victor Catania, Alamo Homes Realty Inc., Pablo Botta, Elena Chaves, and 2100 Cascades, LLC for use in legal proceedings in Uruguay involving an allegation that Javier Botta "fraudulently concealed and transferred marital assets within the jurisdiction of this Court in an attempt to hide them from the Applicant", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging legal malpractice regarding "certain investment/funding transactions" involving Molecular Data Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based "chemical e-commerce platform", and Generex Biotechnology Corporation, of Delaware, in Oasis Capital LLC, of Puerto Rico v. Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero P.A., a Florida law firm, and Brian S. Bernstein, a Florida lawyer, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of money laundering by two unidentified "Brazilian citizens residing in Boca Raton, Florida" in USA v. $63,804, $11,740, and $99,980 of seized assets, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Gregg Podalsky, Gary Gallant, Skyler Lindeen, Alexander Chernyavsky, and David Nicol v. Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Sam Trabucco, Dan Friedberg, Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors, Shaquille O’Neal, Udonis Haslem, David Ortiz, William Trevor Lawrence, Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, Lawrence Gene David, and Kevin O’Leary at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, a.k.a. CLICO, to take discovery from Gregor Gregory, AAUG Holdings LLC, and American Assurance Underwriters Group L.C. for use in legal proceedings in India brought against CLICO by Reliance General Insurance Company, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Complaint involving entities in the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Malta in Pretzel Limited, of Malta v. Pecunia Business Development Limited, of the British Virgin Islands. and Alley Maass Rogers & Lindsay P.A., a Florida law firm, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Samuel Malamud Eidelman, described as a citizen of Peru, to take discovery from Truist Bank, Credit Lyonnais Miami Agency, Bank Leumi, BNP Paribas Miami Agency, Barclays, Sudameris, Banco Santander International, Grupo Santander, and Blum & Silver LLP for use in legal proceedings in Peru against Jacobo Malamud and his three daughters, Malamud Kessler, Caroline Malamud-Kessler, and Yudith Malamud Kessler de Schneider alleging money laundering and tax evasion involving, inter alia, companies in the British Virgin Islands, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH to take discovery from Joan Kilpatrick for use in "a patent infringement action" in Germany, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH to take discovery from Getronics U.S. Operations Inc. for use in a "patent infringement action" in Germany, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Second Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial Date in USA v. Andrew Fahie, a former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Valeria Schvartzman, P.A. regarding Chufy LLC - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - for a criminal investigation into 2MAC Company for suspected money laundering.

Application by LM Property Development Limited, of the Bahamas, and Mirko Kovats, described as "an international real estate investor who has lived in the Bahamas for over 25 years", to take discovery from Craig Roberts, Treasure Cay Services Inc., BDO Americas, Azul Destinations LLC, Noel Thompson, and Lisa Barnes for use in legal proceedings in the Bahamas "involving the Government of the Bahamas and other private parties relating to Applicants' attempts to purchase lucrative real estate that they could then develop", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Sunil Kavuri v. Sam Bankman-Fried, Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors, Shaquille O’Neal, Udonis Haslem, David Ortiz, William Trevor Lawrence, Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, Lawrence Gene David, and Kevin O’Leary at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Motion to Compel Compliances with Subpoena regarding litigation in New York in which "PDV USA is suing Interamerican Consulting, Inc. - an entity solely owned and operated by former United States Congressman David Rivera - for breach of contract and related claims, seeking $15 million plus interest and legal fees" in PDV USDA Inc., a Delaware-domiciled subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela SA, a.k.a. PDVSA, a state-owned oil and natural gas company in Venezuela v. David Rivera at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Order Setting Pre-Trial Schedule and Procedures regarding a trial for alleged narcotics trafficking and money laundering that is scheduled for "the two-week trial calendar beginning on January 9, 2023" in USA v. Andrew Alturo Fahie, a former Premier of the British Virgin Islands; Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, and Kadeem Stephan Maynard at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Pretzel Limited, of Malta v. Pecunia Business Development Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint claiming "$11 billion dollars in damages" as a result of a "fraudulent scheme" involving crypto exchange FTX in Edwin Garrison v. Sam Bankman-Fried, Thomas Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Udonis Haslem, Kevin O'Leary, David Ortiz, Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors LLC, Shaquille O'Neal, William Trevor Lawrence, Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, and Lawrence Gene David, a.k.a. Larry David, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by SCLiquor LLC for leave to serve Hector Ortiz, Michael Green, Scott Roades, Mauricio Vergara, Bacardi USA, Inc., and Bacardi-Martini, Inc. with subpoenas for use in legal proceedings in Bermuda regarding "dispute between Bacardi, one of the world’s largest spirits companies, and SCLiquor, LLC, a company majority-owned by the world-renowned musical artist and entrepreneur Shawn Carter - better known as Jay-Z", filed at the U.S. District Curt fr the Southern District of Florida.

Superseding Indictment alleging narcotics trafficking and money laundering in USA v. Andrew Alturo Fahie, a former Premier of the British Virgin Islands; Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, and Kadeem Stephan Maynard at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.