Keith Gill testifying remotely before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Services on Feb. 18. (Photo: Bloomberg)
Keith Gill, one of the most influential voices that pushed GameStop on the WallStreetBets Reddit forum, was hit with a lawsuit that accused him of misrepresenting himself as an amateur investor and profiting by artificially inflating the price of the stock.
The proposed class action against Gill, who adopted the YouTube nickname "Roaring Kitty," was filed on Feb. 16 in federal court in Massachusetts.
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