SEC Charges GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza With Securities Fraud

SEC Charges GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza With Securities Fraud

This article has been updated with comment from Josh Garza's lawyer, Marjorie Peerce. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza with the fraudulent sale of unlicensed securities and the operation of a Ponzi scheme. The complaint, filed today in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut, focuses largely on the sale of Hashlets, the "virtual miners" sold by GAW Miners through its cloud mining site, ZenCloud. The SEC said that Garza and GAW earned roughly $19 million in revenue from the scheme, which evolved from hardware hosting to....


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