After playing a solid defense against ops for several months, Shaquille O’Neal was finally introduced.
Law firm Adam Moskowitz finally delivered class action papers against bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX on Sunday. O’Neal was the only one of the various accusers, including other famous supporters of FTX, such as Steph Curry and Tom Brady.
Prosecutors repeatedly failed to serve Shack at any of his homes or workplaces. Last week, a judge ruled that attorneys couldn’t complete service by messaging O’Neal on Twitter or Instagram, so the attorneys made a last-ditch effort to find O’Neal before the April 17 deadline. Reportedly, they waited outside the TNT studios for hours and finally took to social media to ask O’Neal to accept the service.
Moskowitz was very focused on Shaq on Twitter. 10 of the account’s 14 tweets in 2023 were directed at O’Neal and his avoidance of the operation’s servers. Lawyers were unable to enter TNT’s studios or homes, even after Shaq’s hip replacement surgery.
Fortunately, O’Neal got some insurance against his legal liability when Charles Barkley offered to give him “a billion dollars” if the Atlanta Hawks beat the Miami Heat – which they did.