Shaq Served in FTX Lawsuit Allegedly ‘Hiding’ for Months

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Basketball legend and businessman Shaquille O’Neal was served authorized paperwork on Sunday within the FTX lawsuit, after allegedly dodging the paperwork for months. The lawsuit is concentrating on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the corporate’s superstar endorsers for defrauding traders.

Adam Moskowitz, co-counsel for traders on the FTX class motion swimsuit and accomplice at Moskowitz Legislation Agency, stated that Shaq was “hiding and driving away from our course of servers for the previous three months,” per Coindesk.

“Plaintiffs within the billion $ FTX class motion case simply served @SHAQ exterior his home,” the Moskowitz Legislation Agency tweeted. “His dwelling video cameras recorded our service and we made it very clear that he’s to not destroy or erase any of those safety tapes, as a result of they should be preserved for our lawsuit.”

Previous to the replace on Sunday night, Moskowitz Legislation Agency tweeted at Shaq on April thirteenth saying that “all different FTX celebrities have agreed to obtain their complaints,” and referred to as on the NBA Corridor of Famer to have “courtesy and honor” in permitting the legal professionals to ship the papers.

The FTX class motion lawsuit claims Bankman-Fried and different public figures defrauded traders by selling the cryptocurrency in what in the end was a “Ponzi scheme,” per courtroom paperwork. Different celebrities implicated within the lawsuit are Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, Stephen Curry, and Kevin O’Leary.

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“Lots of people suppose I am concerned, however I used to be only a paid spokesperson for a business,” O’Neal informed CNBC in December.