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Hi @PabloTorre, I suspect that social media is not the best place to hash this all out and don't remember an "Aspiration Investment Committee" but nothing in this statement conflicts with what I wrote yesterday

Pablo’s post that he’s responding to:

Greetings.

In response to Aspiration co-founder Andrei Cherny — who now claims that Kawhi Leonard’s secret, $28M endorsement deal was not a “no-show job” — @pablofindsout has just obtained the following statement.

It is signed by Aspiration’s ex-CFO; ex-COO and CLO; and ex-CTO.

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The BSJ report that Torre’s latest signed statement corroborates: https://www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/09/04/exclusive-kawhi-leonard-endorsement-deal-that-triggered-nba-investigation-actually-worth-48-million

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EDIT:

Seen some people confused in the comments, Cherny is NOT the guy currently under investigation by the DOJ. He’s actually helping the DOJ in their investigation into Aspiration. That’s the other CEO— Sanberg.

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EDIT 2:

Mark Cuban has chimed in on the forbidden app as well (to no one’s surprise):

Did @TheAthletic get it wrong ?

"I am personally contributing stock to Kawhi to make this partnership possible,” Sanberg wrote members of his leadership team in a May 2022 email obtained by The Athletic. “Aspiration’s CEO judged the deal to be not worth doing. For avoidance of doubt, any and all benefit to Aspiration from the Kawhi deal is being subsidized by my contributing my equity to make this happen.”

27 comments

  4. Dude should be worried about doj investigation. Instead of worrying about Torres posting this saga on social media.

  7. Feels like this dude should be lawyered up to the gills and not posting anything, but I’m glad he’s not

  10. Damn bro got so badly cooked that now he’s pretending he wasn’t implying what we all know he was implying

  11. I think when you have to focus on the fact it is being reported via social media, in an era where social media is the dominant form of media, you’ve probably started to lose the battle.

  15. “Aaaactually here’s proof that there were many things Kawhi has to do as part of this contract, and even tho he didn’t do any of them, we still paid him. Case closed.”

  16. This just keeps getting messier. Cherny doesn’t really deny anything just says it doesn’t conflict with what he already said.

  17. What a fucking cowardly bullshit response lol. He didn’t even have the balls to claim the committee didn’t exist, he had to create a looohole by saying “I don’t remember….”

  19. Honestly blasting this stuff on a public forum if you have your ducks in a row is great. Let the public see just how duplicitous and crappy these dudes are and keep throwing evidence up of their continued lies.

  20. > Cherny is NOT the guy currently under investigation by the DOJ. He’s actually helping the DOJ in their investigation into Aspiration. That’s the other CEO— Sanberg.

    Ah, no wonder Sanberg hates him lol

    (Go git em Pablo!)

  22. I KNEW Cherny was going to go the route of “just because everyone thought it was an awful deal doesn’t make it a no-show job!”

  23. Isnt he putting his plea in jeopardy by talking at all, let alone daring a reporter to prove him wrong? I know we don’t the details of his guilty plea, but he could substantively perjure himself in a way that causes the case to be reopened and now Ballmer, Wong and him can potentially be subpoenaed.

    The DOJ doesn’t care about the NBA, but they do care about a plea being muddied with public comments.

  26. Feels like Cuban is just asking for himself to be investigated after this with how much he’s taking up for the obvious wrong side. Feeling 2nd hand guilt because you’ve done similar shit, Mark?

  27. “Ha – Gotcha Pablo! We didn’t even have an investment committee or any appropriate governance for our company!”

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