Ex-CFO who stole $5M to trade crypto and ‘meme stocks’ gets 3 years in prison
Cooper Morgenthau embezzled $5 million from three different companies and lost almost all of it trading cryptocurrencies and “meme stocks.“
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Cooper Morgenthau embezzled $5 million from three different companies and lost almost all of it trading cryptocurrencies and “meme stocks.“
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