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Benthos Master Fund, Ltd. v. Etra

  1. December 21, 2023

    NY Atty Freed After Deal To Hand Over Docs In $5.2M Suit

    An 82-year-old New York attorney was ordered freed Thursday after spending over a year in federal jail for repeatedly refusing to turn over discovery as part of a dispute alleging he took $5.2 million while working as an escrow agent for an ex-client's major bitcoin deal.

  2. August 29, 2023

    Atty In Contempt Over $5.2M Judgment Still Can't Leave Jail

    A Manhattan federal judge declined Tuesday to free an 82-year-old lawyer jailed for contempt after he failed to pay the $5.2 million he owes to a onetime escrow client — a California crypto-focused fund now planning a forensic examination of his devices.

  3. April 05, 2023

    Elderly Atty Jailed For Contempt Loses Passover Release Bid

    An octogenarian New York attorney is spending Passover in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after a federal judge denied a bid that he be granted compassionate release after being found in contempt and jailed in December for failing to turn over documents in a dispute over $5 million he allegedly stole from a cryptocurrency investment firm he represented.

  4. March 16, 2023

    Benthos Says It Is Still Missing Docs From Jailed Atty

    A New York federal judge Wednesday reminded cryptocurrency investment firm Benthos Master Fund Ltd. that it can request further sanctions against an attorney who was jailed for contempt in connection with the firm's $5.2 million bid to recover missing funds.

  5. December 19, 2022

    NY Judge Jails Atty For Repeated Delays In Crypto Case

    A Manhattan federal judge ordered an attorney representing himself in a crypto investor's $5.2 million bid to recover missing funds to be jailed over his repeated efforts to delay producing bank statements and other financial records, according to court records filed Friday.

  6. September 30, 2022

    NY Judge Rips In-Contempt Atty For Repeated Extension Bids

    A federal judge in Manhattan scolded an attorney for repeatedly trying to avoid turning over records in a crypto investor's $5.2 million bid to recover missing funds, saying the lawyer — who was already held in contempt for stalling — should have produced them years ago.

  7. August 03, 2022

    Judge Holds Atty Facing $5.2M Judgment In Contempt

    An elderly Manhattan attorney is being held in contempt of court by a Manhattan federal judge years into a cryptocurrency fund's attempts to get $5.2 million from the attorney, its onetime escrow agent.

  8. October 26, 2020

    Atty On Hook For $5.2M Says Bitcoin Investor Froze His Funds

    An aging attorney told a Manhattan federal judge on Friday that as a result of attempts to enforce the $5.2 million judgment he faces, he doesn't have access to money he needs for basic necessities such as food and rent.

  9. September 15, 2020

    NYC Atty Takes $5M Crypto Loss Dispute To 2nd Circ.

    A Manhattan attorney accused of blowing up a big-ticket bitcoin deal gave notice on Monday that he's asking the Second Circuit to reverse his $5.2 million arbitration loss over the soured transaction.

  10. August 13, 2020

    NYC Atty On Hook For $5M After Crypto Money Goes Missing

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday entered a $5.2 million judgment against an attorney who blew up a big-ticket bitcoin deal, saying he has "only himself to blame."