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Rob Cunningham | KUWL.show
@KuwlShow
RECONCILIATION: What a DOJ Release states – and What it Does Not.
A DOJ press release does not establish that Linqto customers collectively lost $450 million, that the acquired securities were fictitious, or that the underlying portfolio lacks enormous value
The precise DOJ allegation is narrower: more than 13,000 customers paid over $450 million into Linqto while former executives “allegedly” misrepresented pricing, “allegedly” manufactured scarcity, “allegedly” imposed undisclosed or misleading markups.
What they did NOT “allegedly” report is early Linqto founders helped 13,000+ Linqto customers in over 120 nations collectively grow their investments by ~5x – to well over $2 Billion dollars, through customer investments in one of the most prestigious, high quality, modern era FinTech, AI, Digital Asset Infrastructure and Space Exploration portfolios in history.
The press release supplies no aggregate loss calculation, no customer-by-customer damages schedule, no present valuation of the underlying securities, and no explanation reconciling its “real financial harm” declaration with a portfolio reportedly worth more than $2 billion.
BECAUSE THEY CANNOT.
The indispensable distinction
“$450 million fraud scheme” is not synonymous with “$450 million of customer losses.” No matter how loudly insufferable fame addicts podcast or hold bravado-laced therapy Spaces.
ONE QUESTION
What legally cognizable loss did each identified customer sustain because of a specific, material false statement, and how does the government calculate that loss after crediting the full present value of that customer’s assets?
The press release does not answer that question. Hmm.
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What Forge’s Filing Actually Says
• admits announcing on July 15 that it would not serve as Liquidating Trustee;
• denies that it ever became the trustee;
• denies that an enforceable contract requiring it to serve was formed;
• denies owing or breaching fiduciary duties;
• challenges the Plaintiffs’ STANDING and REAL-PARTY-IN-INTEREST status;
• asserts “UNCLEAN HANDS” and INEQUITABLE CONDUCT;
• argues Plaintiffs failed to mitigate through the backup bidder;
• disputes causation and characterizes damages as potentially speculative;
• demands a jury trial and refuses consent to a bankruptcy-court jury trial.
Forge does NOT affirmatively endorse the Debtors’ historical narrative that:
• customers never possessed legitimate ownership interests;
• prior Linqto operations necessarily victimized 13,000 customers;
• historical misconduct caused the bankruptcy;
• the confirmed restructuring was necessary because the entire customer structure was fraudulent;
• the current Debtors can recover purported customer damages as the lawful owner of those claims.
That silence is REAL and relevant.
The Forge/Schwab filing’s sharper signal comes from the combination of defenses. Forge is preserving the ability to investigate:
• WHO actually owns the relevant claims and assets;
• whether the Debtors have AUTHORITY to prosecute customer-centered claims;
• whether the DEBTOR’s own conduct produced the alleged damage;
• whether a replacement trustee could have prevented the asserted losses;
• whether any enforceable agreement with Forge existed;
• whether the dispute must be adjudicated before an Article III court and jury
EXECUTIVE ORDER 14147
Executive Order 14147 formally declares that federal enforcement institutions had previously been weaponized and orders a review of DOJ, SEC, FTC, and other enforcement activities during the preceding four years. That history justifies heightened scrutiny of federal charging narratives
The order expressly preserves lawful agency authority and creates no privately enforceable defense. Proving weaponization here would require case-specific evidence such as:
• coordination between the new Linqto management and prosecutors;
• selective or materially incomplete evidence supplied to the government;
• suppression of portfolio-value or ownership evidence;
• inconsistent treatment of similarly situated private-market platforms;
• improper pressure on witnesses or cooperating defendants;
• charging decisions intended to influence the bankruptcy;
• communications showing a predetermined “customer victim” narrative.
The REMARKABLE timing – Forge’s answer on September 1 and the DOJ announcement on September 2 – is SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFY preservation demands and exacting discovery.
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Stay tuned. Truth matters. Corruption matters. Morality matters. Weaponization matters. Justice matters.
Forge: Sept 1, 2026: https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentbycode?docId=4610053&projectCode=LNQ&source=DM
DOJ: Sept 2, 2026: https://justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-executives-pre-ipo-investment-platform-charged-connection-450-million-fraud
White House EO 14147: https://federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/28/2025-01900/ending-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government
Source(s):
• https://x.com/KuwlShow/status/2095246682220794061
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