Crypto Leaks
CryptoLeaks is an anonymous publisher and investigative media organization founded in 2022. It operates as a non-profit and is funded by donations and media partnerships. The organization claims to be a group of anonymous cryptocurrency enthusiasts and investigative journalists who want to clean up the cryptocurrency industry from corruption, manipulation, and fraud. CryptoLeaks has released several videos purporting to be sting operation videos in which figures in the cryptocurrency industry have revealed key information hidden from the public.In August 2022, CryptoLeaks released over twenty video clips of lawyer Kyle Roche, a founder of Roche Freedman law firm, talking about his relationship with his client Ava Labs, developer of the Avalanche Blockchain and its native AVAX cryptocurrency. In the videos, Roche revealed that Ava Labs had given him AVAX digital tokens worth tens of millions of dollars, and seemed to indicate that his overarching priority was to further Ava Labs’ interests, even when representing other clients. Roche appeared to boast about utilizing litigation as "a tool to competition", using lawsuits against competitors to harm their business and distract financial regulators from scrutinizing Ava Labs.Roche denied any improper relationship with Ava Labs, insisting that although the videos were genuine, they had been “illegally obtained” and were “highly edited and spliced out of context”. However, Roche was forced out of his law firm, which rebranded under a new name, and the firm was dismissed from several cryptocurrency cases it had been litigating.


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