{"id":77786,"date":"2024-06-28T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=77786"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:34","slug":"fake-crypto-fund-operator-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=77786","title":{"rendered":"Fake Crypto Fund Operator Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fake Crypto Fund Operator Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/fake-crypto-fund-manager.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Michael Joseph McElhiney, age 37 and formerly of Spokane, Washington, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday. Between March 4, 2021, and Sept. 10, 2022, McElhiney defrauded investors by falsely claiming to operate a cryptocurrency investment fund called Mac Blockchain Solutions. He contacted victims in person, via [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Joseph McElhiney, age 37 and formerly of Spokane, Washington, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday. Between March 4, 2021, and Sept. 10, 2022, McElhiney defrauded investors by falsely claiming to operate a cryptocurrency investment fund called Mac Blockchain Solutions. He contacted victims in person, via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}