{"id":5547,"date":"2025-04-29T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-expresses-grave-suspicion-over-deleted-messages-ahead-of-sanctions-hearing-for-crypto-investor\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:12:08","slug":"judge-expresses-grave-suspicion-over-deleted-messages-ahead-of-sanctions-hearing-for-crypto-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-expresses-grave-suspicion-over-deleted-messages-ahead-of-sanctions-hearing-for-crypto-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Expresses \u2018Grave Suspicion\u2019 Over Deleted Messages Ahead of Sanctions Hearing for Crypto Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A federal district court in Tampa will hold a sanctions hearing Thursday involving Gary Cardone, a prominent crypto investor, and one of his companies, Chargebacks 911, over allegations that his employee Ben Scrancher deleted various selected Skype messages, including some a week after the business learned it would face a class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington of the Middle District of Florida entered a text order on the docket that said, in scheduling the hearing, she is \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d by the allegations in the plaintiffs\u2019 sanctions motion, \u201cwhich is well-supported by the evidence of the deletion of Skype messages a week after Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel alerted Defendants to impending litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal district court in Tampa will hold a sanctions hearing Thursday involving Gary Cardone, a prominent crypto investor, and one of his companies, Chargebacks 911, over allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[453,878,5720,5717,5718,590,2012,423,5721,980,5719],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-ahead","tag-crypto","tag-deleted","tag-expresses","tag-grave","tag-hearing","tag-investor","tag-judge","tag-messages","tag-sanctions","tag-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}