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Class action suit against Coinbase alleges unregulated securities sales

Published 03/17/2022, 10:55 AM
Updated 03/17/2022, 01:20 PM
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Three individuals who bought cryptocurrency through Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) filed a proposed class action March 11 in the Southern District Court of New York alleging that Coinbase is operating as an unregistered securities exchange. The lawsuit lists 79 tokens that it claims are securities Coinbase is selling in violation of state and federal law, and the buyers were not warned of the risks involved in their purchases.

The plaintiffs, Christopher Underwood, Louis Oberlander and Henry Rodriguez, represented by Connecticut law firm Silver Golub & Teitell, filed the amended complaint naming Coinbase Global , Coinbase and CEO Brian Armstrong as defendants. The 255-page document argues separately for each token in question that it qualifies as a security under the Howey test as "investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others."

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I want to file a class action lawsuit against all those working for government. They are brainwashing children, forcing them to memorize and regurgitate lies about being "free" while grooming them to be tax slaves.
Amen. I second you.
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