A federal Justice of the Peace decide has signed an order requiring BitBoy Crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong to look 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 the USA District Courtroom for the Southern District of Florida, Decide Melissa Damian ordered Armstrong and his counsel to look on April 20 together with the authorized crew representing the influencers. In line with 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, had 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 crew 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 “every 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 crew additionally reported in a March 20 submitting that considered one of Armstrong’s voicemails included the YouTuber allegedly threatening to encompass Moskowitz’s house with protesters “24/7 day and night time.”
“The scope of the assaults (together with demise threats), which examples are offered in these filings and which proceed every 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, often insulting high-profile figures, together with European Central Financial institution president Christine Lagarde and being usually 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 web site the place folks 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 go well with in opposition to YouTuber Erling Mengshoel Jr. — also called 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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