Charlie Shrem Allowed Out of House Arrest for Bitcoin Documentary Premiere
Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem will gain temporary reprieve from months of house arrest this week as he attends a premiere at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival. Although he wasn't able to provide specific details surrounding his release or attendance at the event, Shrem confirmed to CoinDesk that he would attend the launch of the documentary 'The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin', in which he appears. Arrested publicly over money laundering allegations in January, Shrem has protested his treatment, saying he had been cooperating with authorities in their investigations into bitcoin's....
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Speaking on Wednesday evening on a panel in Manhattan, former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem made some remarks with regard to his ongoing case. He was joined on stage by filmmaker Nicholas Mross, his brother Daniel Mross, and New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, following the premiere of The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin documentary. Shrem is, of course, accused of laundering nearly $1 million to users of the former Silk Road deep web marketplace. He was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in late January. (An alleged accomplice was also arrested around the same....
Former BitInstant CEO and noted bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is set to give a talk at the upcoming American Banker Digital Currencies conference in New York on 29th July. His discussion, entitled "Bitcoin Pitfalls - And How To Avoid Them", will focus on Shrem's colorful history with bitcoin, while putting a special emphasis on the challenges facing innovators. Shrem's appearance at the conference in New York is notable considering his exit from Bitcoin in the Beltway late last month. Rumors that he was banned from the Washington, DC conference owing to legal problems were later....
Charlie Shrem, a bitcoin entrepreneur facing federal money laundering charges, is no longer under 24-hour house arrest. Shrem still has restrictions related to his legal situation that include a curfew and limits on his ability to travel, but the modification allows the 24-year-old to pursue work opportunities, provided he does not leave New York. The changes to Shrem's home confinement terms give him the ability to leave his residence between the hours of 9am and 9pm, Sunday through Thursday. He is restricted to the geography of New York City, and must continue wearing a GPS monitoring....
Charlie Shrem, aka, 'Four Finger Charlie', has posted his goodbye blog and will be surrendering himself to Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp (Pennslyvania) on March the 30th. Charlie was arrested last year and convicted at the end of 2014 for crimes against the US Government in their endless War on Drugs. Sentenced to two year's imprisonment for knowingly allowing a Silk Road user, (Robert Faiella) to trade bitcoins through the now defunct exchange BitInstant. Charlie was charged with conspiring to sell over $1 million worth of bitcoins to Silk Road users, and had to forfeit $950,000. The....
"I've known Mark Karpeles for a very long time. Mark is a very sweet guy. Very non-confrontational, but has he made bad business decisions? Yes. Has he failed to do everything he should have? Yes." So says Charlie Shrem, the troubled bitcoin entrepreneur, speaking to me from his parents' house in New York, where he's currently under house arrest. He tells me he classes Karpeles, CEO of the disastrous bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, as a good friend, but disagrees with a hell of a lot of the decisions the Frenchman has made. Mt. Gox has been dying a slow and painful death for some months, but now....