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Jan 15,, 6 tweets, 3 min read
If there is one thing Jennifer Robertson wants to make clear, it’s this: She had no idea about the $215-million crypto scam her deceased husband, Quadriga CEO Gerald Cotten, pulled off.
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She did not know their gilded lifestyle – the yacht, the airplane, the houses, the private Maritime island they planned to develop – was financed with money that did not belong to them.

She believed her husband’s company was a legitimate business.
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In December 2018, Gerald Cotten's death plunged the crypto exchange, Quadriga, into chaos.

The company owed some $215-million to its 76,000 clients, and no one could locate Quadriga’s cryptocurrency reserves to pay them out.
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Mr. Cotten left no instructions, appointed no successor and kept few records.

He ran Quadriga from his laptop, overseeing millions of dollars in trades from his home office outside of Halifax, or wherever he happened to be.
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Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail, Jennifer Robertson is speaking out for the first time since the $215-million scandal blew her life apart.

Read the full story by @Joe_Castaldo and @alexposadzki: tgam.ca/3qtTncB Image
Bonus: Read an exclusive excerpt from Robertson's book, Bitcoin Widow here: tgam.ca/3KezRsr

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When Gerald Cotten died suddenly in 2018, he was 30 years old, but fabulously wealthy thanks to founding Quadriga – one of the first cryptocurrency exchanges.

Or that’s how it seemed. His death coincided with concerns about the legitimacy of Quadriga.

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After investigating, the Ontario Securities Commission said Quadriga was run like a Ponzi scheme. More than Quadriga clients collectively lost more than $200-million.

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Jennifer Roberston was Cotten’s wife, and was there when he died.

And despite being at the centre of a huge scandal, she’s never spoken publicly about her husband’s fraud or death – or the suspicion it cast on her – until now.

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