{"id":80502,"date":"2024-12-06T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=80502"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:01:14","slug":"fbi-cracks-8-3m-crypto-fraud-launderer-sentenced-to-prison-and-2-3m-repayment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=80502","title":{"rendered":"FBI Cracks $8.3M Crypto Fraud: Launderer Sentenced to Prison and $2.3M Repayment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"FBI Cracks $8.3M Crypto Fraud: Launderer Sentenced to Prison and $2.3M Repayment\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fbi-agent.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">A Maryland Heights man, Richard Charles Appelbaum III, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay $2.3 million for his role in laundering millions through cryptocurrency. Appelbaum, 40, conspired with others to funnel proceeds from Business Email Compromise (BEC) and romance fraud schemes into cryptocurrency via Coins2trade. Recruited by \u201cE.S.,\u201d allegedly [\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>A Maryland Heights man, Richard Charles Appelbaum III, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay $2.3 million for his role in laundering millions through cryptocurrency. Appelbaum, 40, conspired with others to funnel proceeds from Business Email Compromise (BEC) and romance fraud schemes into cryptocurrency via Coins2trade. Recruited by \u201cE.S.,\u201d allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80502","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\/80502","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=80502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}