Lawyers for the organizers of the Tezos initial coin offering claim that lead plaintiff Arman Anvari, an attorney, has “a long and ugly history of racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic statements directed at the parties and others” and that he’s taken actions which could torpedo the lawsuit.

In court papers filed Thursday, lawyers at Cooley and Baker Marquart identified pseudonyms they believe Anvari used on social media sites that used anti-Semitic slurs in reference to Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the husband-and-wife team behind Tezos, a digital currency platform under development.

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