FTX and star backers including Brady, Curry sued by investor
FTX and former chief executive officer Sam Bankman-Fried were sued by an investor over claims that the cryptocurrency exchange now in crisis targeted “unsophisticated investors” using celebrity endorsers including Tom Brady and Stephen Curry, who are also named as defendants.
Garrison claims FTX used celebrities including Curry, Brady, Gisele Bundchen and Shaquille O’Neal to promote the exchange’s unregistered securities and funnel investors into a Ponzi scheme. Football star Brady and his then-wife Bundchen filmed a commercial called “FTX. You In?” that showed them encouraging acquaintances to join the platform, according to the complaint.
“FTX’s fraudulent scheme was designed to take advantage of unsophisticated investors from across the country, who utilize mobile apps to make their investments,” Garrison said in the suit. “As a result, American consumers collectively sustained over US$11 billion” in damages. The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, is the first to be filed against Bankman-Fried and his companies since FTX’s bankruptcy court filing, as investors start jockeying to recover whatever losses they can. The bankruptcy filing for protection from creditors may limit Garrison and others in efforts to get their money back. FTX and its related companies may have more than a million creditors, according to court filings.
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