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Alexander Bykhovsky

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A telemarketing defendant, also named as "Alex Gold," who, with his Nevada company Alex Gold Holdings, was among the five parties found liable by default for $61,500 over Employee Retention Credit robocalls marketing Bottom Line Concepts. He told the court he "did not make or authorize any of the alleged calls," then withdrew his request to set aside the judgment after a private settlement.

Identity and role

Court papers name him as Alexander Bykhovsky, "aka Alex Gold." A 2024 complaint describes him as the "Authorized Person" of Unplugged Media, a Puerto Rico company, and the managing member and registered agent of Alex Gold Holdings, a Nevada company. In filings of his own he has given addresses in Puerto Rico and Panama.

Pandemic-relief role

Bykhovsky's link to the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) comes from Jorge Alejandro Rojas's suit over 62 calls he received about the credit between April and September 2023. Rojas's complaint alleges that Bykhovsky and Christopher Gutierrez Cuenza "engaged in the telemarketing activities, together with their companies" Chris Biz Services, Alex Gold Holdings and Unplugged Media. The complaint also alleges that the defendants relied on Bottom Line Concepts' referral program and its "10% kickback." It further alleges that in a phone call Bykhovsky said he had helped make a website for Cuenza and Chris Biz Services, "including the website provided to Plaintiff by the telemarketer."

His own account, in a declaration signed May 29, 2025: "I am not a call center operator and did not make or authorize any of the alleged calls." He added that he "did not manage or operate the business in question" and "received no financial benefit from the calls."

The court first dismissed Rojas's claims against him on July 12, 2024 for lack of personal jurisdiction in California, without prejudice, and let Rojas amend. The amended complaint added Cuenza and the Chris Biz companies. The clerk entered Bykhovsky's default on September 23, 2024. On April 30, 2025 the court granted a default judgment against him and four co-defendants; because they had defaulted, it took the complaint's factual allegations as true for liability. The award was $500 for each of 123 violations, $61,500, entered jointly and severally on May 7, 2025. Bykhovsky asked the court to set it aside, saying he had never been personally served. On August 12, 2025 he and Cuenza withdrew their requests, telling the court the parties had "reached a private settlement agreement resolving the matter in full."

He had been sued over telemarketing before the ERC. Brandon Callier, a Texas plaintiff, sued him over calls "promoting student loan debt relief products and services," according to Callier's later complaint, which says Callier won a $31,000 judgment against Bykhovsky and Alex Gold Holdings in 2021 and sued again in 2022. That 2022 case was dismissed without prejudice in January 2023. Callier's Nevada complaint says the two sides then settled for $185,000 and that $110,000 went unpaid; on November 15, 2024 a federal judge in Nevada entered a consent judgment for $110,000 against Bykhovsky and Alex Gold Holdings, jointly and severally.

We found no criminal charge or government enforcement action naming him.

Alex Gold Holdings

Alex Gold Holdings, LLC is a Nevada limited liability company whose registered agent and managing member is Bykhovsky, according to two complaints that cite Nevada Secretary of State records. One of them, Callier's 2024 complaint, says the company "owns real estate, transacts business, and is headquartered in Clark County, Nevada." Rojas's complaint says Nevada listed it as revoked as of March 10, 2024 and reinstated it on or about March 23, 2024.

Rojas added the company to his ERC robocall suit in August 2024, alleging that Bykhovsky and Cuenza ran the calls "together with their companies"; the complaint does not say what part Alex Gold Holdings itself played. The company did not answer. The clerk entered its default on November 19, 2024, and it is jointly and severally liable with Bykhovsky and the other defendants on the $61,500 judgment of May 7, 2025. It is also jointly liable with him on Callier's $110,000 consent judgment of November 15, 2024, and was a defendant with him in Callier's 2021 student-loan judgment, by Callier's account.

We found no government action against Alex Gold Holdings. SBA's PPP loan data lists no loan to a borrower by that name.

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