The Crypto Ponzi MasterMind chart gets 8 years for a $ 40 million investor fraud – confirms FOJ star-news.press/wp
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Dwayne Golden from Harrispurg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for his role in the Bonzi encryption scheme of $ 40 million, According to To the US Department of Justice.
The ruling was delivered by Judge William F. The second coutuz in the Brooklyn Federal Court. The 57 -year -old acknowledged that he was guilty in September 2024 to conspire to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
According to the public prosecutor, Golden and his participants, Gregsen, and Marquise wandering in EGERTON (also known as “Mardy Eger”), and William White, which was created and manages fraudulent investment platforms.
These include Empowercoin, Ecoinplus and Jet-Coin, between April and August 2017. These sites promised investors with profits by trading encryption abroad.
No real trade was conducted: The Ministry of Justice displays the encryption fraud network
US lawyer NOCELLA indicated that only companies attracted investors with promises of high returns guaranteed from the trading of cryptocurrencies abroad. However, the prosecutors of any of the companies participating in any real trade activity say.
Instead, the defendants used the investor’s money received to pay previous investors or transfer money for personal use, in line with the Bonzi scheme.
The Assistant Director of the FBI indicated that the platforms raised more than $ 40 million in total. After the collapse of the plans, the defendant tried to hide their crimes by obstructing federal investigations.
Between July 2017 and March 2022, Golden, Aggesen and White tried to hinder the investigation of the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) and the investigation of the Federal Grand jury. The authorities said they had destroyed the main evidence and made wrong and misleading data to the investigators.
It is worth noting that William White was sentenced to 30 months in prison because of his role. Meanwhile, Aggesen and EGERTON acknowledged guilt and awaited the ruling.
As part of his punishment, Golden was also ordered to confiscate about $ 2.46 million of illegal gains. The court will decide to compensate for the victims at a later time.
The victims may be eligible to get a restoration
In a glimmer of hope, the US Prosecutor’s Office encouraged victims of Emprowrcoin.com, Ecoinplus.com or Jet-coin.com to submit recovery claims through the FBI.
“This office is committed to protecting investors and accounting accountants,” said American lawyer Joseph Nusela. “We will continue to follow the justice of those who were harmed.”
Earlier this month, five guilt confessed to a separate case that included the coded currency fraud with a value of $ 36.9 million. The group deceived American citizens and transferred the stolen money to the encryption fraud, based in Cambodia.
With the growth of coding fraud, CERTIK, co -founder Ronghui Gu, told more than $ 2.1 billion already lost in 2025. The majority of these losses stem from the governor at risk and the major major management.
Specifically, the Ministry of Justice submitted a complaint with a civil confiscation to seize $ 225.3 million in the Usdt of Tether, which represents the largest encryption attack linked to investment fraud “slaughtering pigs”.
The officials of the Ministry of Justice indicated that the procedure is part of a broader campaign on across national fraud, where losses were reported more than $ 9.3 billion in 2024, and $ 5.8 billion are directly linked to investment fraud.
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2025-06-30 09:49:00
