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		Feds arrest Princeton grad who raised $257M for fake crypto social media site (fortune.com)
		5 points by textread on Oct 26, 2024 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

paulpauper on Oct 26, 2024 [–]

What happens to all these cases? There have been probably 40+ arrests since 2021 of crypto fraud, like Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan who were arrested in February 2022 for the Bitfiex hack. Do these people actually go to trial or what?

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