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Case No. 2:26-cv-00720-JAD-BNW · D. Nev.

The federal RICO case against the Tate enterprise.

Mitchell v. Tate et al. names sixteen defendants — including Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate — and alleges an association-in-fact enterprise that used a $1M+ AI hackathon to extract subscription fees, participant labor, intellectual property, and cryptocurrency value via interstate wire. This site tracks the case in real time from the filed record.

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Case Analysis10 min read

Andrew Tate on Tape: 'We're Scammers' — The Pump-and-Dump Admission, Transcribed

In a video preserved as Exhibit 57 to the First Amended Complaint in Mitchell v. Tate, Andrew Tate says, on camera: 'SEC, come for me. I'm in Romania. There ain't no SEC in Romania. We're scammers, we're [expletive], we're out here doing what we want. I'm gonna pump a coin up, make 10M, peel it off.' Here is what that quote actually is, why the federal RICO complaint treats it as both scienter and modus operandi, and what it means that he said 'we.'

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  • Case Analysis12 min read

    Andrew Tate RICO Lawsuit Explained: Inside the First Amended Complaint in Mitchell v. Tate

    A federal civil RICO complaint filed in Nevada alleges that Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, and fourteen other defendants ran an association-in-fact enterprise using a $1M+ AI hackathon, a $99/month subscription funnel, and an unauthorized cryptocurrency token to extract money, labor, and intellectual property over interstate wires. Here is what the First Amended Complaint actually alleges, paragraph by paragraph.

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The alleged structure

Seven layers of one alleged enterprise.

The First Amended Complaint frames the Tate enterprise as a coordinated, multi-layer commercial machine. Each layer below is pleaded with particularity and supported by exhibits in the filed record.

  • Layer 1

    Traffic & Representation

    Funnels traffic via paid placement, social, and cross-domain routing into the contest narrative.

  • Layer 2

    Brand & Inducement

    The $1M+ hackathon prize and "Main Sponsor" representations operate as inducement to participate and subscribe.

  • Layer 3

    Conversion & Monetization

    Routes participants from contest pages into paid subscription products like The Real World and University.com.

  • Layer 4

    Payment Processing

    Thrifty Consulting / Thrift Technologies allegedly serve as the U.S.-facing payment rail upstream to offshore accounts.

  • Layer 5

    Lead Capture & Data

    Formspree-backed contact endpoints on cobratate.com and neweralearning.net feed a shared commercial mailing list.

  • Layer 6

    Cryptocurrency Exploitation

    The hackathon narrative serves as the inducement for a separate token scheme; Tate has admitted "pump-and-dump" methodology on camera.

  • Layer 7

    Continuity & Community

    Telegram, X, and successor platforms (The Real World, University.com) preserve continuity after each rebrand.

  • The whole

    The whole, not the parts

    Each layer pleaded as a constituent of a single association-in-fact enterprise under 18 U.S.C. § 1961(4).