HyperFund Promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ Pleads Guilty in $1.8 Billion Crypto Scam
HyperFund drew $1.8 billion from investors worldwide through a crypto platform prosecutors described as a global wire-fraud scheme. Promoter “ Bitcoin Rodney” pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge after authoriti...
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