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James "Jimmy" Zhong 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]
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...
14 kwi 2023 · James Zhong was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for stealing 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012. The DOJ seized and forfeited over 51,680 Bitcoin valued at over $3.4 billion from Zhong's possession.
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 · 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 · On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced that a Georgia man named James Zhong has pleaded guilty to wire fraud nine years after stealing more than 50,000 bitcoins from the Silk Road.
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.
