Legal Breakthrough: MabVax’s Key Allegations Against Barry Honig Collapse Under Cross-Examination
All, Here is a quick summary of how we exposed David Hansen as a bald-faced liar. MabVax accused Barry and the other defendants of pumping-and-dumping MabVax stock. The heart of the argument was that Barry directed John O’Rourke to publish a false article about MabVax on April 8, 2015, on Seeking Alpha. The O’Rourke article […]
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Six Years Later, Court Transcripts Reveal SEC Cooperator David Hansen Lied About Barry Honig
David Hansen, former CEO of Mabvax Therapeutics, received over $40 million in investments from Barry Honig and others—investors later labeled as a “group” by the SEC. Hansen subsequently became a cooperating witness in the SEC’s case against Barry, claiming Barry exerted control over Mabvax and pressured him into accepting the group’s funding.
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Andrew Left Goes to Trial: Facing 365 Years — Will Justice Finally Come for Barry Honig and Others?
The criminal charges against Citron Research founder Andrew Left mark a spectacular reversal of fortune—the man who built a career accusing others of fraud now faces up to 365 years in prison for the very crimes he claimed to expose.
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Superior Court of the State of California county of San Francisco
Finally, after years of misclassifying and underpaying Lee as an independent contractor, Kingsford transitioned Lee to a salaried position. Yet, Kingsford paid her far less than her white, male peers, continued to subject her to a hostile work environment, and pressured her to violate securities laws.
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BARRY HONIG AND FAMILY – The Pioneer and Founder of the Largest Bitcoin Companies Today
In the world of finance, few things are as satisfying as vindication. And few vindications are as dramatic as the one unfolding around Barry Honig—a man once painted as a villainous “pump and dump” schemer, who was the founder and financial architect behind three of the largest Bitcoin mining companies today.
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Barry Honig — What Do They Have in Common?
Why early visionaries in disruptive industries are often painted as scammers—and what history teaches us about the dangerous gap between inception and vindication.
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The Financial Architect Behind The Largest Bitcoin Companies
Today, the companies Barry Honig found in the Bitcoin mining space are among the top ten in market cap for public companies. Meanwhile, Andrew Left, his most vocal accuser, is waiting for his day in federal court as he is facing securities fraud charges.
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Michael Saylor, Brian Armstrong, Jihan Wu — And the One Overlooked
When crypto historians write about Bitcoin’s institutional revolution, they’ll focus on the usual suspects: Michael Saylor’s corporate treasury strategy, Jihan Wu’s manufacturing empire, and Brian Armstrong’s trading platform. But they’ll miss the most important early players of all—the architect who built the mining companies that helped make everyone else’s success possible.
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The Start of Bitcoin Mining: Led by RIOT Blockchain and Barry Honig
By early 2017, the crypto landscape looked like a battlefield after the party ended. Bitcoin had crashed from nearly $20,000 to under $7,000. ICO projects were dying faster than startups in a recession. The “hodlers” were becoming “bagholders,” and venture capitalists were quietly backing away from their blockchain investments.
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The Complete Exoneration of Barry Honig in the RIOT Investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a letter in February 2020, ending Barry Honig’s investigation into RIOT Blockchain. This marked the SEC’s Denver Regional Office officially closing the investigation.
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