BitCoiin Ponzi Compliance Officer & lawyer sued by SEC

The SEC is going after the BitCoiin Ponzi scheme’s Compliance Officer and a purported legal advisor.

After receiving permission from the court (the case is currently stayed), the SEC filed an amended complaint naming Keith Gooselaw and Jeffrey Gold as additional defendants.

BitCoiin was part of Kristijan Krstic’s “Start Options” $70 million Ponzi empire.

Krstic and accomplices John DeMarr and Robin Enos were
sued by the SEC
back in February 2021.

Keith Gooselaw markets himself as a private investigator working out of California.

On The Law Offices of Jeffrey D. Gold’s social media, Gold (right) claims he’s an “experienced litigator since 1994”.

At time of publication The Law Offices of Jeffrey D. Gold’s website was offline.

As per the SEC’s December 12th filing;

Gooselaw knowingly and substantially assisted Krstic’s, DeMarr’s and Bitcoiin2Gen’s fraudulent scheme by falsely representing himself to investors as the “compliance” officer to induce investors to invest in Start Options and Bitcoiin2Gen.

As Gooselaw knew or recklessly disregarded, Gooselaw performed no compliance functions.

Instead, he assisted DeMarr and Krstic in collecting Start Options and Bitcoiin2Gen investor’s funds into several bank accounts he controlled, as well as tracking those funds and sending Krstic and DeMarr reports on the receipt of investor funds.

Gold, an attorney licensed in California, knowingly and substantially assisted Krstic’s, DeMarr’s, and Bitcoiin2Gen’s fraudulent scheme by
authorizing DeMarr to publish on the internet opinion letters on his law firm’s letterhead, in response to the accusation by a state securities regulatory agency that Bitcoiin2Gen was engaging in an unregistered securities offering
, while not disclosing material facts about itself to investors, and to an alert issued by another state regulatory agency.

Gold, falsely holding himself and his firm out as having been retained by Bitcoiin2Gen,
misleadingly assured the investing public that the Bitcoiin2Gen tokens were legitimate tokens and that they were not being offered and sold as securities in compliance with the registration requirements of the federal securities law.

Gold’s letter did not disclose, however, that he had no involvement with or prior knowledge of Bitcoiin2Gen at the time he lent his name and letterhead to this letter, and had not performed any inquiry or research to determine whether the facts he represented in his letter were true, or the opinions expressed based on any valid foundation.

Gold knew or recklessly disregarded that adding his name and purported authorship to the letter would lend unjustified credibility to Bitcoiin2Gen’s, DeMarr’s and Krstic’s fraudulent scheme by making it appear, falsely, as if an attorney had rendered a valid legal opinion based on the due diligence required by his professional responsibilities.

Both Gold and Gooselaw have been charged with violating

As BitCoiin’s Compliance Officer, Gooselaw misappropriated $157,000 in

🤖 Quick Answer

What is the BitCoiin Ponzi scheme?

Who are the newly named defendants in the SEC case?
Keith Gooselaw, a California-based private investigator, and Jeffrey Gold, an attorney claiming experience since 1994, were added as defendants in an amended SEC complaint against the BitCoiin scheme operators.

When did the SEC initially file charges in this case?
The SEC originally sued the primary defendants Kristijan Krstic, John DeMarr, and Robin Enos in February 2021 for their involvement in the Start Options Ponzi empire.

What were Gooselaw and Gold's roles in the scheme?
Gooselaw served

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