Pirateat40 Pleads Guilty to $4.6M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Charge
Texas man Trendon Shavers has finally admitted that he indeed was the brain behind Bitcoin Ponzi scheme named Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST). As per a report by the Wall Street Journal, the entire racket was so big that at a certain time it actually had 7 percent digital currency in circulation under its grasp. This case had taken the Bitcoin community by the storm, but now, as per the plea agreement, Trendon will not face the second charge of wire fraud. Trendon T. Shavers, whose online name was pirateat40, is now going to hear his sentence being read out on Feb. 3. We had earlier....
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Bitcoin Ponzi scheme perpetrator Trendon Shavers has plead guilty to securities fraud, a decision that reverses plea of not guilty submitted in March. Shavers faced up to 20 years in prison for defrauding investors out of an estimated $4.5m while operating Bitcoin Savings & Trust (BS&T). The investment scheme, which promised investors 7% returns on bitcoin market arbitrage activity in 2011 and 2012, became the object of a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) inquiry in July 2013. According to a report by Bloomberg, Shavers will now serve anywhere from 33 months to 41 months in....