California Man Pleads Guilty in $100M+ Crypto Fraud Conspiracy
A Californian man, Kunal Mehta (45), known by aliases like “The Accountant,” has pleaded guilty to charges related to a multi-state conspiracy that stole hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency using social eng...
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