He Went After Crypto Companies. Then Someone Came After Him

> He Went After Crypto Companies

This makes it sound like he wasn't acting on behalf of a crypto company. Roche stated he owns 0.01% of all AVAX, see https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/96d2fbedbfb4ac619f2656....

> Months passed. Then, one day last summer, Mr. Roche’s world detonated. A website called Crypto Leaks posted two dozen videos of him that had been secretly recorded during his meetings with Mr. Villavicencio and Mr. Ager-Hanssen.

> The videos portrayed Mr. Roche and his law firm, Roche Freedman, as being in the pocket of one of their crypto clients. In one clip, Mr. Roche revealed that the client, a company called Ava Labs, had granted him tens of millions of dollars’ worth of its digital tokens, making him beholden to the company and its founder, whom he likened to a “brother.”

> In other clips, Mr. Roche made it sound like his sole concern, even when representing other clients, was to promote Ava Labs’ interests. He bragged that he had managed to distract regulators from looking into Ava Labs and suggested that his lawsuits against other crypto companies were designed to harm Ava Labs’ competitors.

It sounds like Mr Roche actually said those things (edit: he did: see the videos) and is claiming someone gave him some kind of 'truth serum'.

No doubt there's creeps in crypto - Coffeezilla had his family threatened after his most recent expose - but this guy sounds like he said too much and regrets it.

Direct link to original article with the videos in question https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-3. Reading this article there's some mention of Solana, so here's a disclaimer: I have built products that use Solana though I currently own less than 20 USD of Sol.

To be fair, this attitude seems to be common within every in-group I was a part of. The out-group is always 'stupid' and at best needs to be protected from themselves and at worst 'its their own damn fault'. The how it was obtained does not automatically dismiss the honesty under influence impact.