FTX Victims' Lawyers Face Challenge in Serving NBA Legend Shaquille O'Neal – What's Going On?
Legendary basketballer Shaquille O'Neal has been served in a class-action lawsuit against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried - but it wasn't easy, the plaintiffs' lawyers have claimed.
On April 17, the class action litigation law firm The Moskowitz Law Firm said that the plaintiffs in the "billion-dollar FTX class action case" finally served O'Neal with court documents outside his house.
"His home video cameras recorded our service and we made it very clear that he is not to destroy or erase any of these security tapes, because they must be preserved for our lawsuit," the tweet added.
The lawyers apparently had a difficult time delivering these documents.
In a series of tweets posted on April 14 addressing O’Neal, the law firm wrote that the company represents "thousands of FTX victims who lost their savings in the massive FTX fraud."
The lawyers have made attempts to reach the basketballer on several occasions, but have failed in their mission, said the tweets.
They stood all week outside the TNT Studios in Atlanta, USA (where O'Neal acts as a host), said the lawyers, but O'Neal's security guards would not let them inside to hand-deliver the legal complaint.
The law firm, addressing the basketballer, claimed that,
"You’ve been running from us for 3 months & all other FTX celebrities have agreed to receive their complaints. Please have the courtesy & honor to simply allow our process servers tomorrow to deliver our legal complaint on your behalf, so you can defend your actions in this matter."
The lawyers' job was made more difficult when, just days ago, a judge denied a motion to allow them to serve O'Neal electronically.
Even before this April thread on the matter, on March 13, the firm had shared an article by Forbes, which
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