Billionaire publishing heiress Taylor Thomson has sued the company behind an alternative cryptocurrency for fraud and assorted securities violations, after sinking more than $45 million into its digital token.
Thomson says Tushar Aggarwal, CEO of Persistence Technologies, and Ashley Richardson conspired to convince her to invest in XPRT and artificially inflated its value based on her investment, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
Taylor Thomson has a stake in the Thomson family investment business, Woodbridge Co., which in turn owns more than two-thirds of
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