“I love the person that I knew,” she told The Independent from her home in Hallifax, Canada.
“He obviously made it look like he was on the up and up to hide what he was doing and what he had done in the past …
They bought a $600,000 yacht, a high-end Lexus, 17 homes and a private plane, all while jet-setting between Paris, Hawai’i and Morocco.
In 2018, as the price of bitcoin began to collapse, the cracks began to show.
The couple were on their honeymoon in India, where Jennifer had dreams of opening an orphanage.
The Cottens’ home was filled with piles and piles of loose cash, which Gerry claimed was a consequence of supposedly discriminatory banks who didn’t yet understand crypto and refused to work with them.
Perhaps the central argument for the ascendancy of cryptocurrency is its supposed transparency: every transaction made with bitcoin is logged on a public ledger called the blockchain, though the identity of the trader isn’t always clear.
Robertson isn’t under investigation or facing any criminal charges.
She was grieving the man she loved, while learning that same man had deceived her, and defending him against ruthless attacks.
Under the terms of the dissolution of the company, she gave up all her assets beside $90,000 in cash, $20,000 in retirement, her car, and her wedding band.
I faced it head on and I feel like I really took a lot of the consequences for someone else’s mess,” she said.
One of Gerry’s claims he liked to tout to burnish his reputation was that he worked with the RCMP and was registered with Canada’s anti-money laundering service, so of course he couldn’t be a crook.
After living the life of an international elite, she went back to working at an old bar where she was once an employee to put herself through school.
She wrapped up the phone call.