{"id":66431,"date":"2022-08-29T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66431"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:16:36","slug":"brad-garlinghouse-denies-cryptoleaks-accusations-of-funding-roche-freedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/brad-garlinghouse-denies-cryptoleaks-accusations-of-funding-roche-freedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Garlinghouse denies CryptoLeaks&#8217; accusations of funding Roche Freedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has denied recent claims by the online publication CryptoLeaks of an alleged collusion between him and the Roche Freedman law firm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can\u2019t comment on the validity of the slew of allegations in here, but I can unequivocally say that I have never met or spoken to (much less invested in) Kyle Roche. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s5Qu91AV2Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/s5Qu91AV2Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjLZ0eSdbe\">pic.twitter.com\/DjLZ0eSdbe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgarlinghouse\/status\/1564048289661534210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I have never met or spoken to [Roche Freedman&#8217;s founder] Kyle Roche, and I certainly have not invested in him,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoleaks.info\/case-no-3\">CryptoLeaks&#8217; report<\/a>, based on a series of short videos from an unknown source, Garlinghouse agreed to Roche&#8217;s proposal to fund a law firm to take on rival firms.<\/p>\n<p>The publication also asserts that the founder of Roche Freedman previously worked with Boies Schiller Flexner, which represented Ripple <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-ripple\">in a case against the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ripple and XRP communities rallied to Garlinghouse&#8217;s defense, pointing to CryptoLeaks&#8217; arguments&#8217; weakness. One user noted that the publication&#8217;s allegations were based on Roche&#8217;s comments, later presented as facts without evidence.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAccording to Kyle\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/avIqcZRnNz\">pic.twitter.com\/avIqcZRnNz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Smith (@KJS_Brainstorm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KJS_Brainstorm\/status\/1564055820295213056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Among other things, CryptoLeaks&#8217; report alleged that Roche Freedman had struck a &#8220;secret deal&#8221; with Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain, to use the legal system in a &#8220;gangster-like&#8221; fashion to attack and damage crypto organizations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, Roche was to receive AVAX tokens and equity in the crypto company in exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ava Labs chief Emin G\u00fcn Sirer <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ava-labs-ceo-dismisses-cryptoleaks-accusations-of-pressuring-rivals-as-nonsense\">denied these accusations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has denied recent claims by the online publication CryptoLeaks of an alleged collusion between him and the Roche Freedman law firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1464,1274,1323,112],"class_list":["post-66431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-accusations","tag-brad-garlinghouse","tag-investigations","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66433,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions\/66433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}