FTX, Star Backers Tom Brady and Steph Curry Sued by Investor (3)

FTX and former chief executive officer Sam Bankman-Fried were sued by an investor over claims that the cryptocurrency exchange now in crisis targeted “unsophisticated investors” using celebrity endorsers including Tom Brady and Stephen Curry, who are also named as defendants.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in Miami, Oklahoma resident Edwin Garrison is asking to represent a class of “thousands, if not millions, of consumers nationwide.” That includes all investors in the US who were enrolled in yield-bearing FTX crypto accounts, which he alleges constitute unregistered securities in violation of US and Florida laws.

Garrison claims FTX ...