Dissolved ‘Genius Fund’ Asks to Move Dispute to Arbitration

The estate of a late Russian billionaire who invested more than $164M into a since-dissolved California cannabis firm has joined with other defendants in asking a federal judge to force one of the firm’s ex-employees to resolve his employment dispute through arbitration, rather than the courts.
The late Dmitry Bosov was among executives of the crumbled Genius Fund, a Los Angeles-based private equity company for cannabis enterprises, named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by Francis Racioppi Jr., a former Genius Fund executive who claims the company owes him more than $1M in . . .