After having this book here for many weeks, I decided I would finally try to get through it. For those who are interested, it's somewhat of an autobiography by the CEO's wife of Quadriga, Canada's largest crypto exchange at the time, until it imploded after a massive fraud. Well, imploded may not even be a good word to describe it. The book, written in first-person narrative, is basically Jennifer Robertson talking about being innocent through the whole thing, and of her experiences with the CEO, etc. Whether I believe her fully, is a good question. What else would one expect her to claim? That said, I'm willing to hear her side of the story, and hopefully learn something useful (maybe). If anyone has already read this one, feel free to give your two Satoshis. And if you haven't I'll let you know what I think once I'm finished getting through it.
There are documentaries about him on Netflix and Youtube, a faster way to get the gist of the story. I wouldn't be interested how she is trying to whiteewash herself. My quick take: They invested in real estate using her name too, so she was far from innocent. After his death the court had to order her to give back 10 MM, so she didn't end up with much. Cash was lying all around the house when they were flying high. So it is like a maffia wife, does she know where the wealth came from? Of course, unless she is completely dumb.
I think she actually gave up most of it, so she is for sure not set for life IIRC. Thus the book to cash in on the fame.
I've read over 50 pages so far. And so far, she admits she set up her consulting firm and did some transfer payments around for Quadriga clients, etc. but that she never interacted with them, and likes to state how she knew almost nothing at all about anything, including what she was doing. Also keeps mentioning she should have asked the CEO more questions. Including.... p.g. 58-69
~130 pages into it now. Seems the author's mother-in-law did not like her, (possibly knew not to trust her?). This is quite evident in the book. That said, the book now covered the part where she and Cotton signed their last will & testament only 4 days before the suspicious India trip. That is quite a co-incidence, but I suppose that could just be it. Even more strange, the CEO refused to add Quadriga into the will and mentioned later that when/if he died, the company would die with him because he was the only one that knew how it all worked, etc. (her claims).
That is probably a non-story about the moving coins. I don't see it mentioned anywhere and prosecutors are aware of it. They probably moved it.
I heard of the moving coins a while back, but haven't had time to pay attention to the story yet. Now you made me listen to "The Break Down" which I haven't done in about a year. A fun fact, is that I know people at work who traded on Quadriga. Also, I've also been told they used to get their withdraws sent by fiat in snail-mail. Yes, you hear that correct. Cotten mailed out hard-cash in the physical mail to clients! With the latest move, I can come up with a dozen theories. But let's just jump to the white elephant in the room that is the most obvious choice. Michael Patryn is most likely in control of the coins right now. He obtained the notebook from G's wife in an attempt to break it open and gain the keys. Supposedly he couldn't get the keys... but even if that is true, he may have currently found a way to get a solution. There are more hacks found by the day now to retrieve lost keys from hard-ware wallets, etc. Not to mention, Patryn is a career criminal with a history of prison and crypto crimes is right up his alley.