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7 lis 2022 · In November 2021, Law Enforcement Seized Over 50,676 Bitcoin Hidden in Devices in Defendant JAMES ZHONG’s Home; ZHONG Has Now Pled Guilty to Unlawfully Obtaining that Bitcoin From the Silk Road Dark Web in 2012
- Southern District of New York
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern...
- Southern District of New York
James "Jimmy" Zhong (born May 24, 1990) is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; [2] value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion [3]) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014. [4]
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.
7 lis 2022 · James Zhong, of Gainesville, Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in the theft of about $3.36 billion in bitcoin from the illegal Silk Road marketplace.
7 lis 2022 · Prosecutors said Zhong executed a sophisticated scheme to defraud Silk Road of what was about $650,000 worth of bitcoin, based on the value of the cryptocurrency when the fraud took place in...
14 kwi 2023 · A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value was ordered to serve a year and a day in prison. James...
7 lis 2022 · A man who once held over $3bn worth of bitcoin taken from the notorious Silk Road marketplace has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and been forced to forfeit his crypto assets, the US Department of...
