Bitcoin Teen Pleads Guilty Over Providing Support to ISIL
A teenager who allegedly gave ISIL supporters advice on bitcoin has plead guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the terrorist group. 17-year-old Ali Shukri Amin, from Woodbridge, Virginia, worked as a writer for digital currency news site CoinBrief. He is accused of offering guidance to ISIL (or ISIS) supporters wanting to travel to Syria via Twitter, facing a maximum of 15 years in prison. Assistant attorney general John P Carlin said in a statement:
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Ali Shukri Amin has been sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison, according to the US Justice Department. A Virginia teenager who offered online advice on how to use bitcoin to fund terrorist group ISIL is to be sentenced today. Federal prosecutors asked US District Court Judge Claude Hilton to sentence 17-year-old Ali Shukri Amin to 15 years in prison after he pled guilty in June to a charge of providing material support to ISIL. In a statement of facts from June, prosecutors said Amin used social media to promote ISIL and discussed "ways to establish a secure donation system"....
A Virginia teenager sentenced to more than 11 years in jail for supporting terrorism used bitcoin to instruct aspiring jihadists how to mask terrorist funding activities. U. S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Ali Shukri Amin, 17, of Manassas, Va. to 136 months in prison along with a lifetime of supervision for conspiring to support a terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the U. S. Department of Justice announced. Amin, who pled guilty on June 11, 201, admitted to using Twitter to provide advice and encouragement to ISIL....
The trend of Bitcoin and ISIS being related in the same story continues as Ali Shukri Amin, a high school student from Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday for, among other things, teaching ISIS supporters how to use the popular crypto-currency Bitcoin. Ali Shukri Amin of Alexandria, Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to providing material support to ISIS. He faces up to 15 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced August 28. Accused of helping 18-year-old Reza Niknejad, who US officials believe to have joined ISIS, the 17-year-old Amin was accused of relaying messages....
A Nevada man has admitted his role in laundering funds solicited for the Bitclub Network, a $722 million fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. He also pleaded guilty to tax offenses.
Bitclub Network Investor Pleads Guilty
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that Gordon Brad Beckstead, a 57-year-old from Henderson, Nevada, has pleaded guilty in connection with the Bitclub Network fraud. The announcement details:
A Nevada man today admitted his role in laundering funds solicited for Bitclub Network, a $722 million fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.
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A Texas man, who calls himself “Doctor Bitcoin,” has pleaded guilty to running an illegal cryptocurrency exchange business, converting cash to bitcoin. He faces five years in federal prison. Crypto Exchange Operator Pleads Guilty The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that a Texas resident, Mark Alexander Hopkins, has pleaded guilty to “illegally operating a cash-to-cryptocurrency conversion business.” The 42-year-old man, who calls himself “Doctor Bitcoin,” pleaded guilty to one count of operation of an unlicensed money transmitting....