The Department of Justice announced the charges today, saying false statements made by both men defrauded investors in HMNY when the execs pretended like the company’s money-losing $9.95 “unlimited” moviegoing plan had any hope of profitability.Chris Bond, a spokesperson for Farnsworth, said in a statement emailed to The Verge that “The indictment repeats the same allegations made by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Commission’s recent complaint filed on September 27th against Mr. Farnsworth, concerning matters that were publicly disclosed nearly three years ago and widely reported by the news media.But the big problem is his claims that HMNY’s analytics prowess could somehow monetize data generated from MoviePass simply didn’t hold up: prosecutors now allege “Farnsworth and Lowe knew HMNY did not possess these technologies or capabilities to monetize MoviePass’s subscriber data or incorporate these technologies into the MoviePass application.”Here are a few other allegations toward Farnsworth and Lowe from the press release announcing the charges:That they falsely claimed MoviePass’s $9.95 “unlimited” plan was tested, sustainable, and would be profitable or break even on subscription fees alone.The DOJ says each man is facing one count of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud over the lies they allegedly told in “press releases, SEC filings, interviews on podcasts and on television, and in print and online media.”MoviePass eventually shut down at the end of 2019 but is now relaunching with its original co-founder, Stacy Spikes (not named in today’s charges), who had sold a majority stake in the company to HMNY before buying it back in 2021.According to the site for the MoviePass 2.0 beta, invites will go out to people on the Chicago waitlist starting next week as it relaunches the service with three pricing tiers: $10, $20, and $30."