Murgio Pleads Guilty For Operating Illegal Bitcoin Exchange
Anthony Murgio pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to operate an illicit bitcoin exchange, according to The Palm Beach Post. He will be sentenced in June. Murgio was accused of operating the bitcoin exchange, Coin.mx, that laundered cash for Internet criminals, including drug dealers, and facilitated extortion schemes. He was accused of operating an unlicensed money transfer business that used bitcoin to launder cash. The plea comes less than three weeks after prosecutors released a new indictment against Murgio and two others. Case Ensnares Murgio’s Father. The case against Murgio, who....
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The former operator of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, has plead not guilty to money laundering. According to Bloomberg, Murgio also plead not guilty to operating the bitcoin exchange, wire fraud and conspiracy. As previously reported by CoinDesk, Murgio was charged with one count of money laundering and one count of willful failure to submit a suspicious activity report. He was arrested alongside Yuri Lebedev in July and accused of using Coin.mx as a money channel for a series of online criminal enterprises. Both him and Lebedev were charged with one count of conspiracy to....
The former operator of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx has plead guilty in federal court. The move comes after Anthony Murgio had previously plead not guilty to money transmitting charges, first filed last year. The case has been connected by federal prosecutors to the hacking of major US companies, including JPMorgan Chase. Murgio changed his plea to guilty on three charges, including the operation of an unlicensed money transmission service, Reuters reports. He now faces sentencing in June. Attorney Brian Klein, who represents Murgio, confirmed the plea. He told CoinDesk by....
Following his arrest last month, alleged illegal bitcoin exchange operator Anthony Murgio is out on bail with a $100K bond. Murgio has been charged for operating Coin.mx in New York without having the proper regulatory licenses. The terms of Murgio's bail also state that he is not to communicate with anyone else involved in Coin.mx. His partner in the bitcoin exchange, Yuri Lebedev, was also arrested last month and was released on a $25K bond. Illegal Bitcoin Exchange. Apart from not obtaining the necessary regulatory approval for his bitcoin exchange, Murgio is also under investigation....