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Rejane Passos

Subject: FW: Garrison, et al. v. Bankman-Fried, et al., No. 1:22-cv-23753-KMM -- Shaquille O'Neal Request for 

Waiver of Service

From: Reid, Benjamine

Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 1:27 PM

Subject:

We do not represent Mr. O’Neal and I am unaware of any counsel who does.

Benjamine Reid

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From: Joseph Kaye

To: breid@carltonfields.com; cgruhn@carltonfields.com; jacohen@carltonfields.com

Cc: Adam Moskowitz; dboies@bsfllp.com; aboies@bsfllp.com; Brooke Alexander; Stephen N. Zack; Rejane Passos

Subject: Re: Garrison, et al. v. Bankman-Fried, et al., No. 1:22-cv-23753-KMM -- Shaquille O"Neal Request for Waiver of

Service

Date: Monday, March 6, 2023 6:33:11 PM

Attachments: Garrison v. Bankman-Fried - Waiver Request - Shaquille O"Neal.pdf

Garrison v. Bankman-Fried - Waiver Return - Shaquille O"Neal.pdf

D.E. 16 Amended Complaint.pdf

Good afternoon Messrs. Reid, Gruhn, and Cohen,

We represent Plaintiffs and the putative classes in the above-referenced action. A copy of

the operative complaint is attached. I am reaching out to you with a Notice of

Commencement of Action and Request for Waiver of Service for your client, Shaquille

O’Neal (both forms attached). We know Mr. O’Neal is aware of the complaint

(https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/15/shaq-on-crypto-ftx-post-collapse-i-was-just-a-paidspokesperson.html) and are in the process of personally serving him, but wanted to send

this along to you in order to expedite the process and avoid the cost of personal service to

the extent possible. Please let me know if you have any questions or wish to discuss, thank

you. 

Best,

Joseph M. Kaye, P.A.

Partner

The Moskowitz Law Firm, PLLC

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Shaq distances himself from crypto and FTX collapse:

‘I was just a paid spokesperson’

Published Thu, Dec 15 2022•11:16 AM EST Updated Mon, Dec 19 2022•3:48 AM EST

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FTX collapse ensnares celeb investors

Shaquille O’Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn’t believe in crypto, if he

ever did.

That’s after being named in a class-action lawsuit against now-bankrupt

cryptocurrency exchange FTX last month, for promoting the company in a June

commercial.

In an interview with CNBC Make It this week, the 50-year-old businessman and

Basketball Hall of Famer took questions about his relationship with FTX while

discussing his other business ventures.

O’Neal has a long history of investing in companies he promotes, including his

current enterprise, Shaq’s Fun House, an annual part-festival, part-carnival event.

Those investments often pan out: O’Neal makes more off the court than he did as an

NBA star, he told HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” in 2018.

But when it comes to FTX, he says, he was merely a celebrity in an ad.

“A lot of people think I’m involved, but I was just a paid spokesperson for a

commercial,” O’Neal says.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused FTX founder and

former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of orchestrating a “brazen” years-long fraud,

misusing customer funds to benefit himself and his crypto hedge fund, Alameda

Research.

Bankman-Fried was arrested on Monday by Bahamian authorities, likely leading to

extradition and a U.S. trial, CNBC reported. He’ll face at least eight charges from

federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, including several counts of

conspiracy and fraud.

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‘I don’t understand [crypto], so I will probably stay away’

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FTX’s collapse is shaking crypto to its core. The pain may not be over

Customers have been unable to withdraw funds from FTX since the company

declared bankruptcy last month. As many as one million creditors, according to an

FTX bankruptcy filing, are unsure if they’ll ever get their money back.

The class-action lawsuit naming O’Neal is a legal proceeding separate from the

federal government’s charges. It alleges that FTX’s spokespeople “either controlled,

promoted, assisted in [or] actively participated” in a plot to “aggressively market” the

company.

Other athletes and celebrities from FTX’s commercials — including Steph Curry, Tom

Brady, and comedian Larry David — were also named in the lawsuit. Texas is now

separately investigating some celebrity FTX endorsers for potentially violating state

securities laws, according to Bloomberg.

The ex-basketball star’s commercial was somewhat of a surprise: Last year, O’Neal

told CNBC Make It that he was actively avoiding cryptocurrency.

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“I don’t understand it, so I will probably stay away from it until I get a full

understanding of what it is,” he said, adding: “From my experience, it is too good to

be true.”

O’Neal told Front Office Sports last year that he’d declined promotional offers from

various crypto entities.

“I always get these companies that say, ‘Hey, we’ll give you $900,000 in crypto to

send out a tweet,’” O’Neal said. “So I have to say, ‘OK, if you’re going to give me a

million dollars worth of crypto, then why do you need me?’”

He may have had a change of heart in late 2021, though: Over the past year, O’Neal

changed his Twitter display name to “SHAQ.ETH” and “SHAQ.SOL” to promote NFT

collections underpinned by the Ethereum and Solana cryptocurrency platforms.

“I’m excited to be partnering with FTX to help make crypto accessible to everyone,”

O’Neal said in the June commercial. “I’m all in. Are you?”

Today, O’Neal cites his friendship with Curry as a reason he consented to appear in

the ad. A spokesperson for Curry declined to comment.

In the ad, O’Neal told viewers that he checked his FTX account daily. But when

asked now if he’s bullish on crypto, he offers a simple response: “No.”

“People know I’m very, very honest,” O’Neal says. “I have nothing to hide. If I was

heavily involved, I would be at the forefront saying, ‘Hey.’ But I was just a paid

spokesperson.”

It’s unclear how much money O’Neal made from his FTX endorsement deal. Investor

and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary, who also endorsed FTX and is named in the suit,

told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” last week that he was paid $15 million by FTX, and lost it

all: $9.7 million that he’d invested with FTX, more than $1 million in FTX equity and

approximately $4 million in taxes and agent fees.

O’Leary said the money he lost was his alone. “We need to get to the bottom of

what happened at FTX, but we can’t let its collapse cause us to abandon the great

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promise and potential of crypto,” he testified to the Senate Banking Committee on

Wednesday.

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