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7 lis 2022 · U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “James Zhong committed wire fraud over a decade ago when he stole approximately 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road. For almost ten years, the whereabouts of this massive chunk of missing Bitcoin had ballooned into an over $3.3 billion mystery.
14 kwi 2023 · Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES ZHONG was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained approximaely 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.
14 kwi 2023 · James Zhong, 32, was sentenced Friday in New York federal court, where he pleaded guilty to wire fraud last year. At the time of the heist in 2012, the Bitcoin was worth $620,000.
7 lis 2022 · The $3.36 billion belonged to James Zhong, 32, of Gainesville and Athens, Georgia. On Friday, Zhong pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 20...
9 maj 2023 · For James Zhong, the ideal spot was to store it on a computer — with its circuitry exposed — placed in a used Cheetos popcorn tin hidden in a bathroom closet under a pile of blankets. Zhong,...
16 kwi 2023 · James Zhong, who stole more than 51,680 Bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for wire fraud charges. The Bitcoin was worth roughly $3.4 billion at the time of its seizure in November 2021.
14 kwi 2023 · James Zhong pleaded guilty to the wire fraud charges in November 2022 and has been awaiting sentencing for his role in the “unlawfully obtained” Bitcoin scheme.
