Record-linked conduct
- acquired Talentcrowd with knowledge of the pending theft litigation and retained the original principals. ¶¶87–101
- "continues to exploit" the stolen database, pled as ongoing post-petition violations. ¶¶432–438
Accountability dossier
GBQ Partners LLC
Ohio accounting/advisory firm; acquired Talentcrowd ~Feb. 2025.
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Pleaded predicate categories
Complaint categories that directly name this actor
States the Jan. 2022 mass download of a proprietary 2.5M-record database (3,784 files by one defendant; a full Zoho Recruit dump by another), corroborated by Google admin audit logs showing thousands of administrative actions. ¶¶501–504
States promotional and transactional laundering — wires from the fraudulent account to fund operations using stolen secrets, and >$10,000 transactions in criminally-derived funds to attorneys and others. ¶¶325–331
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