{"id":557172,"date":"2026-02-17T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=792780"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:30:23","slug":"us-court-awards-kevin-oleary-2-8m-in-defamation-case-against-bitboy-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/us-court-awards-kevin-oleary-2-8m-in-defamation-case-against-bitboy-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court Awards Kevin O\u2019Leary $2.8M in Defamation Case Against \u2018Bitboy Crypto\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abccdd-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US Court Awards Kevin O\u2019Leary $2.8M in Defamation Case Against &#039;Bitboy Crypto&#039;\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A U.S. court awarded Shark Tank star Kevin O\u2019Leary $2.8 million in damages after ruling against crypto influencer Ben \u201cBitboy Crypto\u201d Armstrong in a defamation case. Failed Attempt to Overturn Judgment A U.S. court has ordered entrepreneur and television personality Kevin O\u2019Leary to be paid $2,828,000 in damages after ruling against crypto influencer Ben \u201cBitboy [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. court awarded Shark Tank star Kevin O\u2019Leary $2.8 million in damages after ruling against crypto influencer Ben \u201cBitboy Crypto\u201d Armstrong in a defamation case. Failed Attempt to Overturn Judgment A U.S. court has ordered entrepreneur and television personality Kevin O\u2019Leary to be paid $2,828,000 in damages after ruling against crypto influencer Ben \u201cBitboy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}