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New York Times: He was a rising star in cryptocurrency law - until his career imploded.

Trial lawyer Kyle Roche has led an interesting life, according to the New York Times. He once earned $100 million selling bitcoin. He helped win a case against Craig Wright (who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto) through his law firm Roche Freedman. And Roche also founded a startup tha...

If crypto was the Wild West of finance, Roche had announced himself as the new sheriff. But sheriffs, as he would soon learn, make enemies.

A California federal judge has denied Freedman Normand Friedland LLP's bid to serve as lead counsel in a proposed class action against crypto company Dfinity after finding that the firm's appointment would not be in the best interests of the class due in part to its continued connections with former partner Kyle Roche.

Freedman Normand Friedland LLP told a California federal judge overseeing allegations Dfinity sold unregistered securities that the crypto company cannot rely on secretly recorded comments from ex-firm partner Kyle Roche to bolster its attempt to disqualify the plaintiffs' firm, saying Wednesday an expert report shows the video clips might be deepfaked.

A California federal judge overseeing allegations that crypto company Dfinity sold unregistered securities ordered a representative of the plaintiff investors' law firm to sit for a deposition on Dfinity's claim that secretly recorded comments from ex-firm partner Kyle Roche reveal financial ties that require disqualifying the firm, formerly called Roche Freedman.

Roche Freedman LLP co-founding partner Kyle Roche has left the firm following weeks of controversy over statements he allegedly made about forming a secret pact with a blockchain platform to sue competitors in the cryptocurrency space, which among other things caused the firm to be axed from one high-profile suit last week.

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.

An attorney who was caught on video calling jurors "idiots" and confessing to filing class actions to advance his business interests must be disqualified from representing the other side of a dispute over a soured partnership, the self-professed inventor of bitcoin told the Eleventh Circuit.

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.