Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former U.S. Solicitors General Theodore Olson, Seth Waxman and Paul Clement have an obvious professional connection but never one as legal overseer for an online company promoting cryptocurrency investments in Texas.

The Texas State Securities Board this week sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company called LeadInvest, which allegedly was using a photograph of the justice and the lawyers, including former deputy Solicitor General Maureen Mahoney of Latham & Watkins, as its “CodeOfEthics Association.” LeadInvest billed itself as a technology company developing trading software for cryptocurrency markets, according to the Texas state board.

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