Forfeiture Against the Attorney, COO and Co-Founder: $869,682.83

Excerpts from the Preliminary Order of Forfeiture signed on 4 January 2023 in the separate case of the attorney who was Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. Full document on CourtListener.

Whose document is this? This document is from the separate case (No. 22-cr-80157) against the attorney who co-founded DeFi Money Market and owned 50% of Blockchain Credit Partners, and who at the time was Chief Legal Officer of the Florida finance company, Chief Operating Officer of National Financial Holdings, Inc. and of National Financial Holdings Technology LLC, Managing Member of NFH Florida LLC, and General Counsel. In these excerpts, “the defendant” means that attorney. Gregory Keough was not a defendant in that case; his own case is No. 23-cr-80154.

Document Preliminary Order of Forfeiture
Case the attorney’s separate case, No. 22-cr-80157 (S.D. Fla.)
Signed 4 January 2023, docket entry 27
Forfeiture $869,682.83

“On October 11, 2022, the Court accepted the Defendant’s [the attorney’s, case 22-cr-80157] guilty plea to Count 1 of the Information.”

“As part of the guilty plea, the Defendant [the attorney in case 22-cr-80157] agreed to a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $869,682.83.”

“Of the EIDL and PPP proceeds received, Defendant [the attorney in case 22-cr-80157] retained approximately $869,682.83 for his personal use, to include American Express credit card payments, USSA credit card payments for maintenance of an Audi, $11,000 payment to Trump National Golf Club, monthly payments of child school tuition, marine services for a vessel, Salles Jewelers in the amount of $67,900, XO Global in the amount of $54,795 for private jet services.”

Source: the attorney’s separate case, No. 22-cr-80157 (S.D. Fla.), docket entry 27. Quotations are from the filed document. Square brackets identify the attorney and are not in the original.