Crypto Exec Broke My Shoulder in Deranged Supermarket Meltdown: Lawsuit

A high-flying cryptocurrency investor assaulted a woman at a New York City gourmet store for not exiting the premises as quickly as he would have liked, swore at her, then broke her shoulder in a second attack after she swore back at him, according to a civil lawsuit filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court.

On June 21, 2023, Peggy McGuinness was on the checkout line at Fairway Market in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan when, the suit says, she initially encountered “a man she now knows to be defendant, Shane Rodgers.”

Rodgers, the lawsuit reveals, is also facing criminal charges over the incident. He was served papers at home and at his Fifth Avenue office, which is identified in court filings as crypto payments processing platform PDX Global. A former investment banker, Rodgers in 2022 told The New York Times that he chose to park all of PDX Global’s assets in crypto rather than hard currency.

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