Alex Spiro – a lawyer for clients such as Jay-Z, Alex Baldwin, and Eric Adams, who has been called “Elon Musk’s Lawyer” by Reuters and Bloomberg – is a co-investor with Donald Trump Jr. in Thumzup Media, a social media marketing and advertising company, which is now pursuing a crypto Dogecoin treasury strategy. Spiro also recently became Board Chair of CleanCore Solutions, a cleaning company now pursuing a Dogecoin treasury strategy. A network of people involved with other deals linked to Don Jr. and Eric Trump are also involved in both of these deals.
Note that there is no indication of any wrongdoing of any kind by the people and companies covered in this article – the reporting is provided to provide transparency on Trump-family business deals. And although Elon Musk is known to be a big fan of Dogecoin – naming the government wrecking ball known as DOGE after it – there is no indication that Musk has any connection to these Doge ventures.
Alex Spiro and Donald Trump Jr. are investors in Thumzup Media Corporation
The July 2025 registration statement for Thumzup Media Corporation lists only eleven selling stockholders including Alex Spiro and Donald Trump Jr.
The address listed for Alex Spiro in the Thumzup filing is the same address as Jones Soda Company. Spiro became a Director of Jones Soda Company in 2022 as the company planned to enter the cannabis sector.
I wrote about Thumzup Media in this piece on Newsmax investor Vadim Shulman and his prior long-time lawyer Dennis Hawk, who previously worked with Thumzup CEO Robert Steele. I highlighted some of the Thumzup investors:
- American Ventures – managed by Soo Yu, the wife of Kyle Wool who runs Dominari Holdings (which is part owned by Eric and Don Jr.).
- Eleven Ventures LLC – run by Hartley Wasko, who I reported here worked closely with Michael Shvartsman who was convicted of insider trading in DWAC, the firm that merged with Trump Media. I reported that Wasko appears to have received $10.8 million from a Russian-American businessman who also loaned Trump Media $8 million. Wasko is also linked to several deals with Dominari.
- Valkyrie X Ser VII TZUP I – managed by Jin Pyung Yoo who is an officer for DogeHash Technologies which has an address c/o Harvey Kesner, a lawyer who frequently worked with Barry Honig.
- Erica Groussman – wife of Mark Groussman, charged by the SEC with Barry Honig in a $27 million fraud scheme.
- Zi Ventures – run by Ido Zaken, an investor in Dominari who also has links to the Honig network.
Several Thumzup investors, including Eleven Ventures and Erica Groussman, are also investors in a company called Brag House which provided $4 million in funding to CleanCore Solutions, where Alex Spiro is now Board Chairman, showing how interconnected these deals are – more on that further on in this story.
Thumzup plans to acquire DogeHash Technologies at a value of $135-$150 million – DogeHash has no reported business activity before March 2025
In August, Thumzup Media – where Don Jr. and Alex Spiro are investors – announced their plan to acquire 100% of DogeHash Technologies, Inc. in exchange for 30.7 million shares of Thumzup stock. The stock price of Thumzup has ranged from $4.40 to $5 since the announcement, valuing the deal at a range of $135 to $150 million.
The press release described Dogehash Technologies as a “leader in DOGE Digital Asset Mining,” even though the company had no online presence before a few months ago and their website was created in March 2025. In August, a Dogecoin mining company called ElphaPex announced a strategic partnership to provide mining hardware to DogeHash Technologies. The announcement was made at the ElphaPex Global Sales Gala in Hong Kong. ElphaPex has service centers in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, the UAE, Canada, and the U.S.
The CEO of DogeHash Technologies is Parker Scott who, per his bio in this filing, is 30 years old, and was previously Chief Financial Officer of PolarityBio and before that worked at ASP Isotopes. After Thumzup acquires DogeHash Technologies Parker Scott will become CEO, and the current CEO of Thumzup Robert Steele will become CFO of the surviving company.
The three board directors after the acquisition will be Christopher Moe, Christopher Ensey and Allan Evans. Moe is CFO of Beeline Holdings and Evans was CEO of Unusual Machines – I wrote about both companies in this piece on Eric, Don Jr. and Dominari Holdings. Ensey was CTO of Gryphon Digital Mining (where Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser was Board chair), Gryphon is now American Bitcoin, a company co-founded by Eric Trump.
Before Scott Parker became CEO of DogeHash, he worked at Polarity Bio which was previously named Polarityte, which I also wrote about in this piece on Eric, Don Jr. and Dominari Holdings. I mentioned Parker Scott’s former boss John Stetson, the CEO of PolarityBio, in another piece which noted Stetson was named in 2018 fraud charges by the SEC for a $27 million stock fraud involving Barry Honig. The charges also named Mark Groussman whose wife, Erica, is an investor in Thumzup.
The lawyer for DogeHash Technologies is Harvey Kesner who previously worked on many deals with Barry Honig and his network (although Kesner was never charged). Per this filing Thumzup management was first introduced to DogeHash and Parker Scott by Doge’s counsel – so it appears Kesner made the introduction.
Last week ASP Isotopes, a company that develops nuclear fuel and where DogeHash CEO Parker Scott previously worked, announced that their subsidiary Quantum Leap Energy did a private placement led by American Ventures with capital contributions from Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
It’s all such a small world.
In September Alex Spiro became Chairman of CleanCore Solutions – a cleaning company transitioning to a crypto treasury company
One thing I’ve noticed about many publicly traded companies pursuing “crypto treasury strategies” (a fancy way of describing using investor money to buy different types of crypto) is how little the prior expertise of the company has any relevance to the pivot into crypto.
In August Fortune reported that Elon Musk’s personal lawyer was set to chair a $200 million Dogecoin treasury company. The next month CleanCore Solutions announced that Alex Spiro was the new Chairman of the Board and that a private placement raised $175 million. Other Doge industry people also came on board – Director of the Dogecoin Foundation and CTO of House of Doge Timothy Stebbing joined the board and House of Doge CEO Marco Margiotta became CleanCore’s Chief Investment Officer.
Before the recent Dogecoin strategy shift, CleanCore Solutions developed and produced cleaning products with a patented nanobubble technology (using something called aqueous ozone) to clean, sanitize and deodorize surfaces.
I recently reported that former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser is now CEO of AlphaTon Capital – a cancer treatment company that is now focused on Ton crypto and that has links to many people who come from and previously worked in Russia.
So it appears that whether you are a cleaning company or a cancer research company, you, too, can shift gears to pursue a crypto strategy and invest tens or hundreds of millions in crypto – which is certainly not a speculative business strategy (some sarcasm intended here).
On Friday, Cleancore Solutions filed a Prospectus for over 198 million shares with over one hundred investors listed (including Five Narrow, Lane run by Arie Rabinowitz and Joseph Hammer who I wrote about here and Devlin DeFrancesco, the son of Andrew DeFrancesco, who is covered a bit further on below).
Maxim Group LLC and Curvature Securities LLC acted as co-placement agents for a September securities purchase agreement for Cleancore Solutions. A FINRA filing shows that the CEO of Curvature is William Terrence Pigott, who previously ran Liberty Corner Advisors. This 2005 New York Times story noted that Liberty Corner was involved in transactions that led to the collapse of Refco after it was revealed that Refco’s CEO Phillip Bennett had hidden around $430 million in bad debt. Bennett was charged and sentenced to 16 years in jail for financial fraud. Liberty and Pigott were not charged with any wrongdoing and Liberty denied any involvement in the cover-up by Bennett.
The connection of Curvature and CEO Pigott to Refco peaked my interest, because I wrote this piece on Austrian billionaire Martin Schlaff and his links to Alpha Capital and the network tied to Eric, Don Jr. and Dominari. Schlaff was one of the largest customers of Austrian bank BAWAG, which reached a $675 million settlement with the U.S. SEC for its role in the Refco scandal. I cover a bit more here about BAWAG and Refco and a Schlaff associate who is linked to a nonprofit that has a small stake in Dominari Holdings, where Eric and Don Jr. own a 12% stake.
Brag House helped finance CleanCore Solutions – the largest investor in Brag House is Brad Morris and a company that lists Alex Spiro as an officer
In September Brag House Holdings, Inc. announced a $4 million investment in CleanCore Solution’s Foundation-backed Dogecoin treasury model. Brag House Holdings is described as a “Gen Z engagement platform at the intersection of gaming, college sports, and digital media”.
In a September 22, 2025 Registration Statement, the largest holders of Brag House stocks are two companies based in Texas called 420 Investments LLC with over 14 million shares and 420 Investments Group, LP with around 7.5 million shares. The footnote says these companies are co-managed by Brad Morris. OpenCorporates lists lawyer Alexander Benjamin Spiro as the only officer for 420 Investments LLC in Texas, the largest owner of Brag House.
Brad Morris and Alex Spiro were previously involved with a few business deals together.
Bradley (Brad) Morris is an officer of House of Doge, which planned earlier this year to combine with Atmofizer Technologies (the deal was later cancelled). Atmofizer was previously named HCI Holdings and Brad Morris was CEO and Alex Spiro was a director. Brad Morris previously worked with a company called SOL Global and Alex Spiro was briefly a director there in 2021-2022.
The former CEO of SOL Global was Andrew DeFrancesco, who owned almost 20% of the company when Morris and Spiro were there. Andrew DeFrancesco was charged for a fraud scheme by the U.S. SEC in 2023.
A 2019 Globe and Mail story reported on Andrew DeFrancesco and his connection to Barry Honig, who was charged by the SEC in 2018 in a $27 million stock fraud and who in 2013-2014 was an investor in Spherix which is now named Dominari and part owned by the Trump sons.
The top U.S. securities regulator has settled civil fraud charges against Barry Honig, an investor who has held stakes in a number of companies alongside Canadian dealmaker Andy DeFrancesco. Mr. Honig agreed to a lifetime ban from buying and selling penny stocks…The SEC has issued subpoenas to Cool Holdings Inc., a Miami-based electronics retailer where Mr. DeFrancesco served as chairman of the board. It’s now the third U.S. company connected to Mr. DeFrancesco, a long-time dealmaker and influential cannabis investor, to receive a subpoena from the SEC since the beginning of 2018… Mr. DeFrancesco’s roles in the three companies ranged from investor to insider. The companies are Cool Holdings, Polarity TE Inc. and Riot Blockchain Inc.
The article above noted that DeFrancesco hired lawyer Alex Spiro, who responded to questions from the Globe and Mail.
Both Andrew DeFrancesco and Barry Honig were investors in Polarity, where Parker Scott worked before becoming CEO of DogeHash Technologies. There is no indication that Andrew DeFrancesco or Barry Honig are involved in Thumzup Media, DogeHash Technologies or Cleancore Solutions – but a network of people linked to both of them are involved.
Following are common investors in both Thumzup and Brag House which did a $4 million deal with CleanCore Solutions:
- Eleven Ventures run by Hartley Wasko
- Erica Groussman
- Douglas A. Perera Jr., also known as Anthony Perera – invested in Thumzup through Exuma and in Brag House through Akaa Family LLC
- Note there is a James McCabe who invested in Thumzup and a Jim McCabe who invested in Brag House, but they have different addresses so it is not clear if they are connected.
I wrote about Hartley Wasko and Eleven Ventures in this piece on Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, who loaned $8 million to Trump Media in 2021-2022. Postolnikov appears to have also sent $10.8M to Hartley Wasko’s Eleven Ventures. Wasko has multiple links to Don Jr., Eric Trump and Dominari Holdings.
Three Thumzup officers are now involved in ‘nonpartisan’ campaign company FullPAC, Inc.
As I was researching this story on Thumzup Media, DogeHash Technologies, investors Don Jr. and Alex Spiro, and Spiro’s other Doge venture Cleancore Solutions – I came across another interesting item related to Thumzup.
An Offering Circular for up to 10,000,000 shares of FullPAC, Inc. shows that three people involved with Thumzup are involved with FullPAC. Thumzup CEO Robert Steele and former Thumzup Director Joanna Dodd Massey are to become two of the five FullPAC Directors. FullPAC is a campaign services company that offers campaign tools for political candidates, advocacy organizations and nonprofits.
Thumzup CFO Isaac Dietrich is a Co-Founder and CFO of FullPAC. Dietrich was previously CFO of Greenwave Technology Solutions from 2023-2025 and held positions there since 2013. Greenwave was previously named MassRoots, Inc., where investors included Barry Honig’s brother Jonathan and Andrew DeFrancesco’s wife Catherine. Other investors include John Stetson, the former boss of DogeHash CEO Parker Scott, Michael Brauser and Mark Groussman – Stetson, Brauser and Groussman were all named in the 2018 SEC fraud charges with Barry Honig.
In 2020 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged seven people in a microcap fraud scheme involving cannabis-social-media company MassRoots – however, MassRoots and Dietrich were not charged with any wrongdoing.
It is a small world indeed.
The new CEO of FullPAC, 31 year old Travis Trawick co-founded RoboCent in 2012 (when he was around 18). Per this filing, Isaac Dietrich also co-founded RoboCent which is now a fully-owned subsidiary of FullPAC.
A recent press release announced that “nonpartisan campaign technology provider” FullPAC has acquired the GOTV.com domain. FullPAC subsidiary RoboCent’s website has several case studies, including one on mobilizing support for Kavanaugh and this one on mobilizing shareholders for the merger of DWAC with Trump Media & Technology Group.
As Don Jr. and Alex Spiro invest in Thumzup Media, which plans to acquire DogeHash Technologies to pursue a Doge crypto strategy – it appears that several officers of Thumzup are branching out on a new venture to launch FullPAC, a supposedly ‘nonpartisan’ campaign tools company. There is no evidence that the Trump sons or Spiro have any connection to FullPAC, but this network is so intertwined that this is another company to watch, including to see who funds them going forward.