Crypto Leaks Comments by Partner ‘Uniquely Stupid,’ Judge Says

A New York judge Monday called a Roche Freedman co-founding partner’s leaked comments boasting about his firm’s relationship with a crypto startup “uniquely stupid.”

Katherine Polk Failla, a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York, also voiced concerns about the firm’s motivations for filing a class action accusing crypto exchange Bitfinex and affiliate Tether of market manipulation.

She said she will decide within a week whether the firm should be booted from representing plaintiffs in the case.

Monday’s hearing came more than a month after a website called Crypto Leaks released recordings of firm co-founder Kyle Roche ...