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FT3 Mining / FT3 Management (Justin Estvold, Austin Dunn) — a pattern across three separate 2026 lawsuits. Public court records inside. If you're considering investing with FT3 Mining (bitcoin mining company), FT3 Management, or with Justin Estvold or Austin Dunn, here is the publicly-filed litigation record as of mid-2026. Everything below is drawn from court filings anyone can pull. None of these allegations has been proven, and the defendants have denied wrongdoing. I'm posting so prospective investors can find the public record and do their own diligence. 1. Cook County, IL — Case No. 2025CH09142 The owner of FT3's Chicago office building brought a third-party complaint against FT3 Management LLC, Justin Estvold, and Austin Dunn for breach of lease, fraud, and civil conspiracy. The complaint alleges: * FT3 signed an 11-year lease (\~$547K/yr base rent, $6.8M+ total) but never posted the $1.78M letter of credit the lease required. * Through spring–summer 2025, Estvold and Dunn allegedly repeatedly said they were "working with Bank of America" to obtain the letter of credit, dodged the landlord's calls citing travel, and ran months of delay. * In August 2025 they allegedly submitted a fake Bank of America letter of credit with a forged signature. * After the lease was terminated, Estvold allegedly sent screenshots of Bank of America wire transfers (showing multi-million-dollar balances) for payments that never arrived — which the complaint alleges may have been fabricated. * In a December 2025 court filing, FT3 said it would wire $3,329,919 once it set up a "new banking partner." The complaint alleges it never did. Estvold answered *pro se*, denying the fraud and conspiracy claims. 2. Delaware Court of Chancery — Case No. 2026-0332 An investor named Jacob Estvold — who shares the founder's surname — states he invested $750,000 and sued FT3 Mining, Inc. to compel inspection of its books and records under Section 220. The complaint alleges FT3 raised over $4 m