March 11, 2026
Digital asset companies Tether and Bitfinex have petitioned the Second Circuit to review a New York federal judge's recent decision granting class certification to two classes of investors in a suit accusing the companies of rigging the cryptocurrency market and costing investors hundreds of billions of dollars.
March 09, 2026
A New York federal judge narrowed the class definitions in a suit accusing Tether and Bitfinex of rigging the cryptocurrency market and costing investors hundreds of billions of dollars, after finding that there is no "clear-cut" injury for some investors.
February 24, 2026
A group of Tether and Bitfinex investors who acquired bitcoin or Ethereum scored class certification in their case accusing the digital asset companies of rigging the cryptocurrency market and costing them hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a sealed opinion issued Monday by a New York federal judge.
September 23, 2025
Tether, Bitfinex and others have urged a New York federal judge not to grant certification to a class of investors accusing the digital asset companies of rigging the cryptocurrency market, arguing that the investors' expert presented an "unsound and unreliable" methodology for determining common impact, among other things.
October 13, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday tossed Roche Freedman LLP off a market manipulation suit against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin Tether, saying remarks by the firm's founding partner describing a secret pact with a blockchain company to sue other crypto firms can't be dismissed as merely "drunk and stupid."
October 03, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge blasted Roche Freedman LLP founding partner Kyle Roche's "uniquely stupid" comments about a supposed plan to take down blockchain companies, but seemed uncertain Monday about the law firm's future role in a market manipulation suit against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the stablecoin tether.
September 21, 2022
A federal judge in New York has ordered the company behind cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the stablecoin tether to produce documents relating to the backing of the stablecoin and certain transactions, rejecting the defendants' arguments that the document requests were too general.
September 06, 2022
Roche Freedman LLP's co-counsel in an investor suit over the cryptocurrency tether want the firm cut from the case following a report that founder Kyle Roche formed a secret pact with a blockchain company to sue competitors — a report that also allegedly led to threats of physical harm against Roche in another case.
September 02, 2022
Roche Freedman LLP on Friday urged a New York federal court to let it continue representing investors suing the company behind the stablecoin tether and cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, saying accusations against the firm's founding partner shouldn't warrant disqualification of the entire firm.
September 01, 2022
The company behind the stablecoin tether and cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex wants law firm Roche Freedman LLP terminated as plaintiffs' counsel in a market manipulation class action it's facing, after an anonymous report alleged the firm's founding partner Kyle Roche formed a "secret pact" with a blockchain platform to sue crypto competitors.