Ex-MoviePass, HMNY Execs Told Judge Is Stepping Down From Trial

Oct. 31, 2023, 2:42 PM UTC

The former chairman and CEO of now-defunct Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc., Theodore Farnsworth, and MoviePass’s former CEO, J. Mitchell Lowe, will be tried before a new judge, assuming they don’t change their not-guilty plea to securities fraud before mid-November.

Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. who has presided over the Southern District of Florida case since last year, said on a Tuesday hearing that he is taking senior status and has decided not to handle what is expected to be a lengthy trial.

“One of the benefits of senior status is I can take cases I want and not take ...

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