{"id":21763,"date":"2025-04-11T22:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21763"},"modified":"2025-04-11T22:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:16:48","slug":"judge-rules-against-most-of-dcgs-motion-to-dismiss-nyags-civil-securities-fraud-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21763","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Against Most of DCG\u2019s Motion to Dismiss NYAG\u2019s Civil Securities Fraud Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A New York judge ruled Friday that the majority of New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 civil securities fraud suit against crypto venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) and two of its executives can proceed to trial.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, James sued James sued DCG and its CEO Barry Silbert, DCG\u2019s now-bankrupt lending arm Genesis Global Capital and its former CEO Michael Moro and crypto exchange Gemini, alleging that they worked together to cover up a gaping $1 billion hole in Genesis\u2019 balance sheet caused by the wipe-out of Singapore-based crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>James said DCG and Genesis made \u201cfalse assurances\u201d on social media that DCG had absorbed Genesis\u2019 losses from 3AC\u2019s implosion when, in fact, they had just papered over the hole with a promissory note, pleading to pay Genesis $1.1 billion over 10 years at a 1% interest rate. While DCG has adamantly maintained that the promissory note was legitimate, James\u2019 suit claimed that DCG has \u201cnever made a single payment under the Note.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While Gemini and Genesis both settled with the OAG, DCG, Silbert and Moro have fought them tooth and nail. Last spring, DCG and both executives filed motions to dismiss the suit, alleging that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) had failed to state a claim \u2014\u00a0essentially arguing that they were not selling securities and thus should not be sued under New York State securities laws.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But the judge presiding over the case disagreed in her Friday ruling, writing that the OAG had, at least at the current stage of the case,\u00a0adequately alleged that the Gemini Earn program \u2014 the now-defunct Gemini lending product that went belly-up in November 2022 and which sits at the center of James\u2019 case \u2014 was a security.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Crane did, however, agree to toss out two of James\u2019 claims against DCG, Moro and Silbert \u2014 one claim under New York\u2019s Executive Law that they engaged in a scheme to defraud in the first degree, and another that they engaged in a conspiracy in the fifth degree \u2014 ruling that those claims were duplicative.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Though Crane ruled the case can proceed, DCG said it isn\u2019t done fighting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have stated from the beginning, the allegations against DCG are a thin web of innuendo, mischaracterizations, and unsupported conclusions,\u201d a spokesperson for DCG told CoinDesk. \u201cWe\u2019re encouraged by the judge\u2019s dismissal of the New York Attorney General\u2019s most outrageous claims based on alleged violations of criminal fraud and conspiracy statutes. We will continue to fight this baseless lawsuit as we remain focused on our mission in support of the digital assets industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York judge ruled Friday that the majority of New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 civil securities fraud suit against crypto venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) and two of its executives can proceed to trial. In 2023, James sued James sued DCG and its CEO Barry Silbert, DCG\u2019s now-bankrupt lending arm Genesis Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-21763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}