Zach Witkoff, a co-founder of Donald Trump-linked World Liberty Monetary, just lately had a video of his 2022 arrest, the place officers positioned a bag of cocaine on his individual, floor.
In the course of the arrest, Witkoff repeatedly insisted he was mates with Marc Roberts, who runs Membership E11even, the place Witkoff was being arrested, ensuing within the safety guard insisting that Witkoff ought to “stop dropping names.”
Zach is the son of Steve Witkoff, who serves as Trump’s particular envoy to the Center East and was additionally a co-founder of World Liberty Monetary.
Witkoff wasn’t prosecuted following this arrest.
Apart from serving as co-founder of World Liberty Monetary, Witkoff additionally intends to guide World Liberty Belief Firm, a stablecoin-focused belief firm that utilized for a nationwide constitution.
Protos reached out to World Liberty for touch upon Witkoff’s earlier arrest, nevertheless it didn’t instantly reply.
Beef with Justin Solar
World Liberty Monetary and Justin Solar have been in a slow-moving, months-long confrontation since World Liberty selected to blacklist a considerable portion of Solar’s WLFI tokens.
This slow-rolling battle lastly got here to a head with Solar suing World Liberty, whereas concurrently insisting that he nonetheless totally helps President Trump.
Solar claims that World Liberty “wrongfully froze all of my tokens, stripped me of my right to vote on governance proposals, and have threatened to permanently destroy my tokens by burning them.”.
Witkoff took to X to assert that this lawsuit is “a desperate attempt to deflect attention from Sun’s own misconduct.”
He continued to allege that Solar “engaged in misconduct that required World Liberty to take action to protect itself and its users.”
When World Liberty initially blacklisted these tokens, it famous that one tackle it froze was “suspected of misappropriation of other holders’ funds.”
Folks have assumed that this was Solar because the WLFI tokens he moved, that he claims are fully his personal, got here from an tackle related to an trade he owns, HTX.
Solar has moreover threatened a potential defamation lawsuit associated to claims that World Liberty has made about him.
