[6] The companies Cohen has been involved in since the 1980s include: Playnet Technologies, Voltage Capital, LAMIA, Aristo International and Ecast.

[10] In the mid-1990s Cohen put together a team of veteran video game producers, engineers, marketing specialists, and executives for Playnet, a public company listed on NASDAQ.

Employees included Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese;[11] Joe Ybarra, who worked at Apple before joining Electronic Arts in their startup phase as a producer, and was president of Infocom and Sr. VP of Cheyene Mountain Entertainment;[12] and Glenn Sblendorio, former CFO of Sony Entertainment.

[13] The company developed two main products: A touchscreen controlled "bar top", coin-operated video game machine[14] and a digital jukebox, capable of storing an extremely large selection of songs and able to download new releases.

[22] A federal grand jury in 2010 indicted Cohen on 32 felony counts of fraud and money laundering,[23] and he was arrested in August 2010.

[1][25][26] U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said evidence at the trial showed that Cohen collected more than $30 million from defrauding over 55 investors, including actor Danny Glover and the Vanguard Public Foundation (a San Francisco-based nonprofit supported by Glover and Harry Belafonte that funded civil rights efforts).