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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by tim333 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:43PM (#19753192)
It must be tempting to transfer the assets to some account you control as there's almost no way to prove who did it or catch you.
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by wmf on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:47PM (#19753226)
Just ask Trendon Shavers, Charlie Shrem, or Ross Ulbricht.
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by woah on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:46PM (#19753611)
Don’t ask Ross Ulbricht. You’ll have to ask the DEA agents who embezzled money while making unsubstantiated accusations of murder for hire. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoin...
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by wmf on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:51PM (#19753635)
And those DEA agents are also in prison.
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by vkou on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:08PM (#19753711)
The accusations were quite substantiated, his defense was about as laughable as 'my baby brother did it'.
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by jamoes on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:19PM (#19754051)
Ulbricht never presented a defense for the murder-for-hire charge because the charge was dropped and never went to trial. Ulbricht has been sentenced to double-life in prison for all non-violent charges.
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Re:Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, B... by mikeyouse on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:59PM (#19754747)
This isn't right - his attempted hits directly led to a longer prison sentence and he could have refuted the factual allegations if he had a defense for them.

See page 3/4 and then page 27:

  https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391926/gov-uscourts-nysd-422824-142-0.pdf
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