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Generation Y as we look into the mysterious death of cryptocurrency millionaire Gerald cotton this is true
crime [Music] garage how are you doing tonight Captain I'm doing well how are you
well I'm doing okay but it's a Red Bull and riddlin type of day I'm struggling a
little old RNR yes well this individual that we're going to talk about he probably took
some riddling I'm sure he did tonight's case is an interesting one would you call it a mysterious
death yes uh or maybe an unexplained death we're talking about the Unexplained death of Gerald cotton who
otherwise goes by uh Gary and he was running one of the or the largest crypto Exchange in Canada when somebody like
that passes away it's not that big of a deal but he was very young at the time so that's where some questions come in
among others yes he ran a crypto exchange called quadriga CX sounds like something from Star Trek
yeah and for anyone that doesn't know what that is I would say think of a stock exchange you know any kind of
exchange where you can buy and sell some type of good uh but because it's crypto
people kind of their brain shuts off and they don't quite understand what cryptocurrencies are I think of them as
stocks but you could actually use them to buy things too but do you have a better explanation Captain well his his
business was a little different than most because it seemed like I could go onto their website and take a $100
American dollars and buy $100 worth of crypto but it was not actually crypto in this case for his company I could be
getting this wrong but it seems to me like it was a a IOU for crypto and and that's not exactly out of the ordinary a
lot of crypto exchanges might not be able to fill your order immediately right so they will have
these little tags of IUS whatever you want to call them and fulfill them over the next few days because they might not
be able to do it immediately yeah but what's interesting about his model was that their company charged you to make
the uh transaction so once you bought the $100 and whoever sold you the $100 both had to to pay a fee so it wasn't
just like some scam business the the company was making millions just upon transactions and he had a pretty normal
life growing up and he would end up going to school for business administration at uh York University
School of Business his parents were antique dealers he was just a very normal nerdy guy before he started
dabbling in cryptocurrencies right he had a few business ventures before quadriga which
we'll talk about later quadria was as I said it it was a crypto exchange but in order to
become the largest crypto Exchange in Canada you have to legitimize yourself you have to look like you are the real
deal and he created this from the groundup with his business partner Michael Patron they established a board
of directors they had a small office at one point there's another way to make yourself look legit and that's by
creating fake user accounts to show that people are using your service and I know some podcasters
will purchase you know reviews or uh follow ERS for themselves to make themselves appear a little bit more
legitimized and I personally don't care if somebody does that but when it comes to a
exchange it might be a little disingenuous well it goes back to a couple things and one if you want to
know what which podcast we're talking about we're going to reveal those in a second no we're not going to do that but
if you go to iTunes and you see somebody's reviews that say this podcast is nice and then the next one is nice
podcast this podcast is neat like chances are those are fake reviews that the podcast bought also we see it all
the time where people buy followers on Instagram Facebook or or whatever now this practice that they're using is
similar to what dating websites would use so they would get these fake accounts 10 attractive females 10
attractive males and they would have these fake accounts going all the time so it seemed like there was a bunch of
people using their site like Justin says maybe that's okay and maybe you don't frown upon on that too much on a
dating site especially if it's free but on a cryptocurrency website where they're charging you per transaction to
me that seems a little shady up front I I agree uh because if you are legit then
you know maybe you can go out on Yelp or Google reviews and give yourself some good reviews but some of these fake
accounts were like R2D2 or Mickey Mouse I it was blatant that they weren't real that's that's uh True Crime garage's
number one fan R2D2 he's partnered up with this Michael guy and things are going pretty well
when they first started out they were actually a like over over the counter exchange kind of like an ATM where you
where you could like put your money in own some Bitcoin or whatever cryptocurrency and then you could
withdraw money but that didn't really take off so they took this whole thing online which is the normal thing to do
with cryptocurrencies that all happened they established the company in 2013 and by
2014 it was reported that they were doing like $7.9 million in exchanges a day and by
2017 they were doing over a billion dollars in transfers and exchanges a day wow and like I said they are charging
they are charging their users for every transaction and it might be just fractions of pennies but still that adds
up if I didn't mention it Captain he's running this entire thing from his oh MacBook Pro
when you hear this it seems so made up and when you start thinking of the idea of like a a Ponzi scheme or something
like that to me a company that is doing transactions like you said billions of dollars I'm expecting them to have a
campus somewhere multiple buildings tons of employees once you find out that Gary
is running the whole operation on his MacBook is it was it even a MacBook Pro I've read it both ways I don't think it
really matters though hey no that to me it's like I give him a little more Kudos
if it's just a Macbook he went cheap route could you imagine if your laptop broke and you had
to go to the Genius Bar and deal with one of those guys to try to get your billion dooll company back up and
running yeah and could you could you try to fix this before lunch because we're losing billions well obviously business
is good uh his business partner Michael he's uh got a love for expensive cars and a lot
of luxurious things in life and at this time you know from 2014 to 2017 crypto is booming the prices are going up
Bitcoin is gone from you know just thousands of dollars up to $10,000 for one coin right but in 2017
things start to take a hit crypto's value is tanking so business investors would do they start to try to withdraw
their money and normally you can just put in you know sell your crypto put in the
withdrawal form and within 48 hours you're going to have your money and 48 hours I would say would be a long wait
time right because usually at least in today's time you can have it pretty instantaneously if not within hours
maybe in 2017 that process wasn't quite as panned out I mean when crypto first started
back in the day it was hard to buy crypto there wasn't all of these exchanges and apps on your phone that
you could buy you had to go to some shady sites to get it so investors are trying to withdraw they're not getting
any response they're emailing customer service who's then telling them to open a trouble ticket then their treble
tickets have an SLA or a you know service agreement time they're not hearing back some of them are waiting
months so people are upset the investors who have hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars wrapped up in this
are going online going on Reddit complaining about this and even starting to file lawsuits this is one of the
things I heard that was that made their company unique is that it seems like other companies you would have to almost
like apply to get your money out and there's was supposed to be more like readily available so the fact that once
people started trying to pull their money and they didn't have these stipulations in place that screwed them
from the get-go and they had what they're what we call third- party processors and the only way I can
explain this is if you go to say you know McDonald's or Starbucks when you pay for your coffee they're point a
sales machine is probably owned by a third party who's going to process your credit card and do all those things well
they have third party processors one's called crypto Capital these processors take a fee also but with all of this
legal rambling going on quadria is blaming their third-party processors and blaming some of the banks they use for
the Slowdown right this is just point the fingers and don't blame us they also have uh one of their fund holders is
called custodian and they had I think $28 million in funds in quadria saying no they're they have our funds and we
can't pay you until they pay us right now let's go back for a second because back to these fake accounts right did
you see a breakdown on on how they think that the company started kind of getting
upside down no go ahead and explain it yeah so one of the things that they were doing is like but like we said he's
running the whole company from his laptop what we should say is before Gary cotton gets involved
I don't like calling him Gary I'm going to call him Gerald yeah it's fine old Gerald cotton gets involved they did
have some buildings they did have a few employees but once he got involved no offices no nothing just his laptop well
he could go on in the middle of the night and just basically create like a fake thousand Bitcoins and then he could
start selling those to people and every time he's selling you know 100 bucks here 50 bucks here their companies
making money off those transactions so he would do this and he actually created I think multiple fake people and I don't
even know if his business partners knew he was doing this but it reminds me of Shaw Shank Redemption when you find out
that Andy defrain created a fake guy and started funing a bunch of money to that
account so but then what happens is if let's say we have a million dollars in in the pot and I start adding money
that's was never there and now people are buying that eventually if I keep doing that once people go to take their
money there's not going to be enough money in the pot you have to rob Peter to pay Paul the question then becomes to
me for for these guys in and his you know Michael his his business partner why were they doing this because they
were making millions just off of transactions cryptocurrency is like David Copperfield right it's like it's
magic it's we can't see it can't touch it but it's so funny to me that these guys that are getting into these
cryptocurrencies like you were saying Michael for example had a love of expensive cars so they're using using
this fake entity basically and making money off this fake entity to buy actual material things I just kind of find that
a little ironic regardless of whether this business is legitimate or not that's actually how a lot of places
function it's almost like fake it till you make it right and you know if he can create fake Bitcoins to sell and dump
them into the pool I mean that's just like the Federal Reserve just printed off more
money it's not that different to me but I could be off base there well no I still think it's hilarious that they're
called the Federal Reserve they're not federal at all there is clever name there're is federal as Federal Express
exactly at the time where these lawsuits and things are happening his business partner Michael actually steps down and
is just a shareholder in the company at that point point and Gerald is running the show Gerald at this point has his
long-term girlfriend Jennifer Robertson he thinks that this is a good time to marry Jennifer make her the only
employee listed at the company they're going to Honeymoon in India they had their eye on like uh
sponsoring a orphanage for children in India I think there was 12 kids at this orphanage and you know that's nice it's
you know they're trying to be giving and uh he walked in and he said I'll buy all
12 children no I'll take I'll take all 12 uh but they're trying to be philanthropists with their money
and they get married they plan this trip to India for their honeymoon and they're
going to go there and adopt to or you know sponsor this orphanage do you know when they got married so they end up
getting married June of 2018 I question that because right now the company appears to be in turmoil in
legal turmoil with all these lawsuits and the inability to pay off a lot of the investors yeah but when things
aren't going good in life just get married it fixes everything yeah and they're going to honeymoon in India yeah
but here's what's weird though is they get married in June they're basically waiting
till December to Honeymoon yeah or they or they honeymooning for like months and
months well they they wait a little bit and you know because you know sometimes you have to save up money for that
honeymoon right yeah when you're when you're running a billion dollar company off your MacBook guess what I'm going to
go buy this weekend a Macbook try to figure out how to start a billion dollar company yeah who's with
me one of the interesting things about this case well maybe not interesting is the right word but maybe confusing and
maybe one of the reasons why people start questioning everything that you hear about Gerald cotton is there's
mixed reports just like we said they got married in June but they don't take their honeymoon till
a few months later and it doesn't there's conflicting stories on when their honeymoon actually started and
then there's conflicting stories on how many how many days was Gerald in India before he got sick and and went to the
hospital some Reports say a week some Reports say two days yeah I found that he went with his wife they checked in at
the hotel and they went to a fondue party or a fondue restaurant now I know do you fondue I don't fondue myself I'm
not the biggest fan uh well maybe you'd be a happier person if you did dipping things in
cheese always makes them better Gerald cotton was known to have Crohn's disease okay which is I guess uh really bad I
IBS it causes you great gastral intes problems it's it's not something that we should take lightly it's not something
that I I think oh it just had Crohn's disease that was it but look it could get very bad and and depending on the
the type of flare up that the individual would have you know I've had family members and stuff that have been
hospitalized because of it so it's it's very it can be very serious I don't know
how deadly it is I don't know how many people will die from a flare up Gerald gets to India and some Reports say
within 24 hours he's not only gone to the hospital for a flare up but he's become septic
and he dies from complications you know and I guess my whole problem is you know if you think
okay you have Crohn's disease you're going to India maybe you go to a street vendor and you order something that
looks like meat on a stick and I think that stuff's great by the way I love Street vendors myself I love taco trucks
but the whole stereotype is he ate something bad in India and that caused him this distress but if we're going off
the time frame of within two days of him arriving did he even have time to eat anything or was this flare up happening
on the plane are you saying he he was doing a 4our fast no but you I I get what you're saying
it's like saying like I have a bad stomach so when I go to Mexico the first thing I do is drink a gallon of water
you know you're not supposed to do that yeah um so it's yeah it's very strange um but here here's one of the things
that I kind of Wonder his company's there's bad things happening in the company there's illegal things
now happening in the company you are doing some of those illegal things you are creating fake
characters and selling money that's doesn't exist on in your business I wonder because of the Crohn's disease if he
didn't also have like some ulcers and some other stuff that was going on due to stress and that maybe he wasn't aware
of because he's feeling like certain types of pain and certain but he's he's he's dismissing
that as his Crohn's disease it's very possible I agree I would be stressed out just the fact that I'm running the
company off of a Macbook he's at this hospital he is declared dead his wife now organizes or you know sets up
transport for his body to be transported I guess back to the hotel so they can find somebody to
not really do an autopsy but do embalming because they've already got the uh diagnosis from the doctor at the
hospital that he died from like acute gastral intestinal problems right so they find an embalmer they take his body
there this embalmer says hey he didn't come directly from the hospital he's been moved around you didn't follow
protocol I'm not going to to unalm him so she takes his body back and they find a medical school Med students to do the
embalming of his body this is India maybe there is protocols and procedures there's language barriers you know maybe
this is legit but it seems like there's a lot of paperwork and moving around of his
body at this point before she's able to get him inomed and then arrange transport for him to go
back to Canada to Nova Scotia where they live and the uh 12 children at the orphanage they're left high and dry if I
was one of those kids in that class i' go you liar you told me I was getting new shoes not and that happens on
December 8th is when he goes to the hospital nobody knows he's dead there's no announcements made
nothing for a month quadriga is still business as usual people are still depositing money into
it still trying to do their exchanges everything they have no clue but it's a month later that his wife posts it's a
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went to the UK yes but I'm sure we're going to have a couple drinks in the UK so I'm sure we will that's going to be a
fun time so let me try to wrap my head around all this they go to India they're there less than 48 hours
he goes to the hospital that's not to me that doesn't seem crazy with when you find out that
he has Chron's Disease seems like something that's possible but then he dies and they won't inbomb the body and
they have to do this loop around where they get some college students to do it or they
actually it was the little kids that they're trying to sponsor they're like we're going to have you and bomb this
body they ship the body back to Canada and she doesn't tell any of his family members she just post it
online yeah Gerald had parents right have you seen any reports of them talking about his death not a lot
trying to find anything about it for that month period of time between his actual death and her announcement I
didn't find anything after that announcement you can find some some quotes uh and whatnot but at
that point it's not exactly it just doesn't seem to be known by anyone or reported by anyone I'm trying to play
Devil's Advocate cuz I'm trying to go okay well if he's the only one really running the company and we announc now
that he died and maybe look we don't even know at this point if she can get into his computer that is running the
whole company well we'll get to that we will get to that I'm just saying that like yes it's a little fishy that she
doesn't announce it for a month but you wonder is there some complications because he's running this business by
himself where they didn't want to they maybe they didn't want a run on their server you know and and have all the
money disappear yeah but one of the things and I don't know if you want to get to this
now but they were together for a long time years before they got married but before they went to India few weeks
before they went to India Gerald changes his whole will yeah he's leaving a lot of his stuff to his
wife uh they had two cute little Chihuahua he even leaves like it's reported that he leaves
$100,000 to the dogs do we know what the Chihuahua's names are I don't I well Nick would have known you can just
imagine at this point this has caused complete and utter turmoil with the investors yeah and they're doubling down
on coming after this company and trying to get their money the Canada Revenue Agency and their security and policies
uh folks are now coming after this company they're finding that a lot of these accounts were fake
they're finding that Gerald had communicated under false aliases to different organizations they're finding that the
hospital in India where he was declared dead well the chairman who ran that hospital had actually been convicted of
fraud two months prior oh surprise to Gerald's death surprise surprise my first question was it was it even a real
hospital I mean I don't live there I have never stepped foot in the place but according to the documents sure it's a
real Hospital ran by fake doctors this government agency comes after Jennifer and says all right you need to hand over
his laptop you need to hand over everything related to the company including all the passwords and
passphrases to access it and what does Jennifer say I don't have them the own the sole owner and proprietor of this
company who is delegated only you know who is delegated all of his stuff to his wife who is the only employee of the
company right he dies and she doesn't have a single password I have a hard time trusting people when I see that
they have a password pass code on their phone like what are you trying to hide why do
you why does everybody in this world need a passcode I wonder with this laptop and this makes a difference if it
it's a Macbook or a MacBook Pro because the MacBook Pro has like the finger identifier so they could chop his finger
off and she could like carry that around on a keychain and use it to unlock the laptop
they find that he had made several transfers or deposits of money from the company to personal accounts ranging
from a hundred million to tens of millions of dollars right before his death and it said that his laptop
alone had $250 million in crypto locked up on it Jesus quarter trillion dollars now he
was buying some stuff he I don't think he was known to buy sports cars or anything like that but he he did buy
some properties and he bought a $600,000 yacht like hey that's baller money right
yeah I'm not really you know I'm just I'm just not really into cars I buy a yacht he didn't even know how to sale at
the time of this person right he literally had to take sailing lessons you know normally when you teach
your kid how to drive a stick you you let them figure it out on like a Honda Civic from you know the 1980s you you
don't get them a Ferrari to figure out how to drive a stick but here he is he's got all the money in the world he can do
whatever he buys a $600,000 yacht who does he think he is Conor McGregor they find out that his wife
Jennifer Robinson she's changed her name four times now she had been married and divorced so
some of those name changes could be explained but well how many times was she married I mean look if you're married
four times and you change your name four times fine right wasn't four times but why are you just changing your name for
no reason as we can assume the Canadian government and law law enforcement is not happy with this so they get search
warrants and they raid his properties they're able to recover some hard drives they're able to recover some of the
funds that were missing ernston young had uh the ability to do you know recovery
on these drives and break some of the uh encryptions I guess they found that an account for someone named Chris Marque
had transactions in excess of $220 million that's a lot of money but who is Chris
Marque exactly I mean I know who he is but would you want to tell the listeners who he is oh go go ahead go ahead sorry
so this is also Gerald yeah this is an alias and and so you said how repeat that number again
I just want that to sink in for everybody in excess of$ 220 million of cryptocurrency to a fake
person that is the richest fake person I've ever I've ever heard of if you had a fake person right that you're going to
give millions of dollars to what would you name him do you have a name you'd go by like Batman or the
captain TCG captain uh just to get and then I was arrested now I would I would go by uh Andy Kaufman that would
be perfect and every now and then when I'm at a bar I'll say I like to say when they go well what's your real name I say
Andy Koffman or I'll say um Bon Scott they find that he didn't do his personal property tax returns for 2014 2015 or
2017 and in 2016 when he actually did file he showed that he didn't make any profit well In fairness all all that
profit was going to his is the fake person he created then add insult to injury they're able to recover some of
these funds from these hard drives but remember those third-party processors I was talking about they're saying hey
they still owe us money and you need to give us any of those funds recovered and
those third party processes are trying to recover those funds as opposed to those funds going back to the actual
individuals the investors now what's what's going on with his body so he was emomed by
medical students he was sent back to Nova Scotia and they buried him right away well guess
what give me a shovel let's dig up his dead [Music] bones and and see what he has to say for
himself the investors are pressuring the government to exume his body and do a DNA test yeah there was a court hearing
I believe last year or two years ago now um the only thing I could find and maybe
you found something better than me uh it seemed as if whatever hearing that they
had where it seemed like they're going to win the hearing pretty easily but then that's been like delayed now
because of covid so I I don't know actually where the investors stand on the digging up the dead
bones well when there's over a quarter trillion dollars at hand I'm sure they're not going to give up anytime
soon yeah it's sad that we you know this should be a simple I wish the world worked like take any judge right
and you go look what what do we know for certain we know that Gerald was scamming
people out of his money therefore he was doing something illegal therefore he'd become a prisoner right so in a sense he
becomes property of the state so I do not feel bad for him his wife or any of his family members that were going to
dig him up to get answers you know sometimes when they want to dig somebody up I go hey hey they
they didn't do anything wrong we should stop you know especially these cases where it's like they dig up the body
multiple times and do multiple autopsies and it's like by the third autopsy it's
like can you even buy anything that the doctor is saying because at that point the body is so
mutilated but in this case we would know is there is there really a person there or is this guy off somewhere else
and then he becomes a fugitive we talked about other partners in crime here like
his uh his buddy Michael uh yeah Patron now he and Michael claimed that they'd only known each other for about five
years at the time that this happened so you know if you take they started the company in you know 2013 is and and then
he dies in 2018 you know that's about a 5year time but as further investigations into
this Michael guy goes they find that Michael used to run a website that was the first kind of shady
crypto exchange website he created a website called Talk gold and Gerald as a teenager went and joined this website
that's where he met Michael they would go on to create other sites I think one was called SNS
Investments and this had a crypto I guess currency called Midas gold and it was run by
a I use bank with air quotes called Liberty reserve and Liberty reserve was allegedly ran by an American in Costa
Rica who laundered money so you take your drug money you take your human trafficking money yes
you go to this website you buy this Midas gold a second can you tell me that website again so I can write it down
it's not there anymore so you're saying so now what should I do with my drug money so they
there and they buy this Midas gold which think it's processed however through Liberty
reserve who then would turn around convert it back into Fiat cash for a fee hand it back to
you essentially laundering the money that's awesome now Liberty reserve it's like
real life Ozark right yeah exactly but it's all digital online digital Reserve did not keep any
records of their clients any kind of database so you could track who was buying this and withdrawing it yeah I'm
going to call my call my company Liberty federal financial responsibly conservative
Reserve Liberty reserve was reported to have over 5 million users and over 8 billion in assets
so this is uh so basically what you're saying is investigators have now figured out that they they this scheme this was
a scheme all along and that they knew that they were going to like no matter it's almost like they came up
with this scheme and they didn't expect it to blow up and become somewhat legitimate and it
did and that actually throws a wrench into their plan of just having a a cam service because quadria C quadriga
CX was platformed on Liberty reserve my god wow Michael Patron I don't know what his real name
was because he was actually arrested for identity fraud as Omar danani what's with
everybody changing their names I just don't trust people that don't use their real
name you know those use your real name be honest people says the captain I have a boat I
have a yacht 600,000 $600 million yacht I'm just messing with you Gerald which is using aliases creating fake
accounts fake people we have Michael his partner using aliases creating fake individual we have his wife that has
changed her name multiple times some like like we said if you get married and divorced and you can you'll change your
name there and and you'll change your name coming back but it's still strange that she's changed her name multiple
times I think that these investors are very justified in their complete and utter disbelief that Gerald cotton has
died but just one more detail for you his name is Gerald cotton his last name is spelled c
tteen on his death certificate it's spelled c TT an he does have stomach issues that's why I'm like it's not
impossible that an with the stress that he look and I don't feel bad for him because he is the one that put
the stress on him I wouldn't put it past him that something bad happened or or or
maybe he even like committed suicide and for whatever reason his wife is covering it up because if if he
committed suicide maybe she wouldn't get certain things so I want to put it past
him that the the the death is not real not saying it is real I'm just saying it's possible people die in their 30s
people die from stress related complications especially with somebody that has something look Crohn's
dis disease normally will not cause death but if you're super stressed out because you're creating fake people and
you're creating fake money and you have millions and millions of dollars that are technically not real and millions
and millions of dollars that you owe to people and you don't have the money to fund
that because you just bought a giant yacht this can cause some stress issu so it's possible that he he could have
died it's I'm leaning towards no he didn't I would but I would bet my cryp my cryptocurrency on the
fact that he's still alive now what's interesting though is in this case as as opposed to so many other mysterious
deaths or Unexplained Mysteries I think we're going to get answers to this because if they finally
get a judge to sign off to have his body exhumed we'll know and at that point it's either a
there's not going to be a body in that grave B there'll be somebody else's body in that grave or nobody right you think
it's you now okay now if we're going to bet cryptocurrency I'm betting he's not there right but I'm also also betting
that there's just not a body and here's where I think he's screwed up I don't mind so much that the death certificate
has like the name spelled wrong because he was in a different country here's what gets me cuz Gerald doesn't seem
like a dumb guy so so here's here's my issue and this is the part that pulls me back and
now if you said okay you have to bet right I would bet that he's not in that grave
but if you said you don't have to bet all of the money there's a 10% 15% chance that I go this is real he
actually died stress whatever and the proof is he could have been cremated right and I don't even know like how
well like DNA test work on ashes so as long as I think you could get like human remains you could come
back and go well here it is think about how easy that would be yeah like what why wasn't he cremated because that
would have cleared the Slate here like he was buried so there's still quote unquote evidence of his existence if she
would have had him cremated we wouldn't really be having this conversation because I don't know if they could
actually do but that's what I'm saying they dig up the body he's there I think maybe that's the tell
that you know and and maybe his family would say I don't know I'm just saying like
it's not that it's not that hard for I mean we haven't I mean I've never sat around and thought about faking my death
but but I'm going hey you go to India you die from this uh the stomach issues you have me
cremated but because that didn't happen like you said there is evidence so that that is that that little bit that goes
maybe this is just what happened it's possible I wonder if uh you know his buddy
Michael what if he had him killed yeah but he would have to be in cahoot with I me
there's the wife right you would think unless it was a plan just gone horribly wrong like I'm G to kill him and get all
the crypto and then kill the wife and get the rest of the stuff or just get the crypto and take off I don't know I
mean there's there's some theories there of what could have happened I'm more or less he did this he
faked his own death and he took off or like you said he actually died of natural causes like the official story
says but with the totality of evidence here the totality of his just criminal behavior from a teenager on and every
single person he engaged with in their Shady Behavior I just I can't accept that this is real because it would be
the worst possible timing and the worst possible planning of getting married going on a honeymoon in the middle of
all of this and then dying right in the middle of it it's like what would the chances of that but you're in agreeance
with me where you say the big mistake in this whole plan would be not to be cremated
and you and I just wonder maybe there is some kind of background with his family
with religious or whatever that that was an option in his plan and I think that there'll be a Manhunt for him on a scale
that uh we've never seen before and I if I was one of those you know multi-million are but you're just not
telling us the truth if Justin's even your real name yeah if if I was you bet your ass I
would be hiring some head hunters to go find him and there's so much more to this case I mean we tried to fit
everything we could into you know an hour but you can go down the rabbit hole there is so many more details so many
more schemes P Ponzi schemes and and criminal acts that I just didn't even feel the need to mention because yeah I
wouldn't be surprised if they don't make some kind of documentary out of this cuz
there's enough meat on the bones to to chew on this one for a long time I would love to hear what your listeners think
did this guy die of natural causes or do you think he's uh sitting on some beach
sipping on uh an expensive Margarita yeah so tell us your thoughts at true Crim garage.com click on the
blog and let us know what you think Justin it's always so great to hang out with you thanks so much for joining us
here in the garage and I look forward to hanging out no problem in London with you awesome it's been my honor thank you
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This week, the Captain invites Justin from Generation Why to join him in the garage and discuss the perplexing case of Canadian crypto-millionaire, Gerald Cotten, who died on his honeymoon.

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Brief Summary

Gerald Cotten's mysterious death raises questions about fraud at Quadriga CX and whether he faked his death to escape legal issues.

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Mysterious Death of Gerald Cotton. Exploring the unexplained death of cryptocurrency millionaire Gerald Cotton.
The Mysterious Death of Gerald Cotton. Gerald Cotton's sudden death raises questions about the legitimacy of his company and his life.
The Fake Accounts and Aliases. Investigators uncover a web of fake accounts and aliases linked to Gerald Cotton.
The Quest for the Truth. Investors demand answers, leading to a court hearing about exhuming Gerald's body.

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