Gemini’s former operating chief Benjamin Small filed a whistleblower report in 2017 accusing Gemini of making false statements about its Bitcoin futures contracts after he was fired

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The origins date back to 2017, when former Gemini Chief Operating Officer Benjamin Small filed a whistleblower report, claiming the exchange had made false statements about Bitcoin futures contracts.

Gemini claimed that the DOE’s investigation and lawsuit relied on a false whistleblower report filed in 2017 by the exchange’s former operating chief, Benjamin Small, who allegedly undertook a “malicious campaign” against the exchange after it fired him.