Crowdfunding firm Prodigy is broke, former exec claims in defamation lawsuit

A former Prodigy Network executive is suing the real-estate crowdfunding platform and CEO Rodrigo Niño, alleging that the company’s “cash difficulties” aren’t his fault — they’re Niño’s.

Vincent Mikolay was named interim chief operating officer at Prodigy in December 2017 and became the permanent replacement a few months later. In his complaint, filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, Mikolay also claims that Prodigy hasn’t paid him his shares of Class B incentive units since he was terminated in December 2018.