Dynamis Team Rapidly Secures Pre-Indictment Dismissal of All Criminal Charges Brought By Opposing Party in the Middle of Pending Federal Civil Litigation
The Dynamis LLP team of Jamie Hoxie Solano, Brooke Watson, Constantine Economides, Tyler Finn, and Nathan Heronian recently secured a full dismissal of criminal charges that were instigated against our client by a civil defendant in her employment case, which has been pending in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey since June 2025. The team moved quickly and obtained an across-the-board, pre-indictment dismissal less than three weeks after the client self-surrendered and was arrested on the charges.
Dynamis LLP represents a client (the “Client”), a plaintiff who brought a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against her former employer, a large company that builds and maintains Web3 technologies (the “Company”) and one of the Company’s founders (the “Founder”), (collectively, “Defendants”). As alleged in the Complaint, the Founder sexually harassed and assaulted the Client, harassed the Client by calling and texting her incessantly and sent someone to bang on her apartment door close to midnight, and the Defendants summarily terminated her a month later in retaliation for raising concerns that Defendants were not abiding by their U.S. tax obligations. Defendants also withdrew their sponsorship of the Client’s H1-B petition.
The Client, through prior counsel, sent the Company a demand letter in April 2025, almost immediately after she was terminated. The Company ignored that letter until two months later in June 2025, at which time the Company accused the Client of stealing the Company’s and the Founder’s cryptocurrency. The Defendants filed counterclaims in the Client’s civil suit alleging various claims related to alleged cryptocurrency theft and an accusation that the Client exceeded her authorized access to company documents. The Client denies these accusations in full.
Of note, Defendants are also named defendants in a federal RICO lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, where the Company’s former co-founder has alleged that the Founder also falsely accused him of stealing cryptocurrency. That lawsuit alleges further that the Founder misrepresented information to Chinese and United States law enforcement and orchestrated the co-founder’s extrajudicial abduction at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China to extort millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from the co-founder.
On August 4, 2025, Defendants unsuccessfully moved in the Client’s civil case for a preliminary injunction seeking return of the cryptocurrency in dispute, which the Court denied in September 2025. Discovery in the case proceeded and became more contentious, and the Dynamis team took over the Client’s representation. The Dynamis team quickly analyzed a complicated web of cryptocurrency transactions and identified many gaping holes in Defendants’ discovery productions.
On July 20, 2026, the Dynamis team learned from Defendants’ counsel that a local city police department had issued a warrant for Plaintiff’s arrest. This revelation came as a shock. No part of the investigation had been disclosed in the course of discovery, and no one had contacted the Client or the Client’s counsel.
It was later revealed that after losing his preliminary injunction motion, and after many months of civil litigation proceeding forward, the Founder went to the police department and accused the Client of theft and computer abuse, based on the parties’ civil cryptocurrency and document dispute, even though the District Court had refused to grant the Founder preliminary injunctive relief. The Founder and his counsel returned to the police department and provided documents and information, which led to the issuance of the arrest warrant.
On July 29, 2026, the Client self-surrendered to authorities and was detained by ICE for several days, triggering deportation proceedings. Five days after the Client self-surrendered, Defendants requested that the Court stay the civil case, effectively foreclosing the Client’s ability to seek to compel their production of discoverable and likely exculpatory material.
The Dynamis team worked tirelessly to assist the Client in building a team to tackle the time-sensitive immigration and state criminal charges. The team quickly analyzed the criminal charges, sifted through voluminous incomplete discovery, and was able to put the pieces together to highlight significant exculpatory concerns that presented powerful reasons why criminal charges against the Client were not warranted. Less than three weeks after her initial appearance, the Dynamis team secured a pre-indictment dismissal in full of all criminal charges against the Client.
Dynamis can now focus, once again, on getting the Client justice for Defendants’ abhorrent misconduct.
Handcuffs are not supposed to be used to gain an advantage in civil litigation. No matter what the fight brings to the table, Dynamis will adjust quickly to fight for our clients until the job is done.
