Ava Labs’ attempts to distance itself from Roche Freedman LLP’s anti-competitive litigation funding efforts are being refuted by Kyle Roche’s own pitches to prospective investors in the scheme.

On Monday, Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer issued a public response to attorney Kyle Roche’s claims about how the pair weaponized the legal system to target rivals of Ava Labs’ ‘cryptocurrency’ token AVAX. Roche was the star of some damning videos surreptitiously recorded by Crypto Leaks whistleblowers that show Roche bragging about how tight he was with Ava Labs’ principals and how they’d used class action suits as a means of obtaining privileged information on Ava Labs’ rivals. Roche also claimed to have helped ensure that U.S. regulatory focus remained on these rivals rather than on Ava Labs.