Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius, is scheduled to appear in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on November 13.
In addition to the November 13 hearing, a pretrial conference has been set for January 16, with a jury trial scheduled to begin on January 28, 2025. Mashinsky’s attorneys argue that these individuals ignored his instructions to sell Celsius’s native token, CEL, instead purchasing additional tokens on the FTX exchange throughout 2021.a Curcio hearing related to potential conflicts of interest because his lawyers also represented FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in a separate case.Mashinsky and Cohen-Pavon are accused of manipulating the price of CEL while secretly selling their holdings at inflated prices.