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密码保护:Bitconned Is a Cryptocurrency Cautionary Tale 2024.1.1 ☑Press ☑U.S.,美国
Inexperienced co-founders, a non-existent product, and a mysterious CEO who seems to be MIA — what could possibly go wrong? Bitconned, the new documentary from director Bryan Storkel (The Pez Outlaw), goesinside the cryptocurrency craze of the late 2010s and unravels the story of Centra Tech, a crypto company dreamt up by a couple of South Florida hustlers with a knack for Photoshop and a penchant for living large.
“Crypto [was] just this new unfound territory, completely unregulated by the SEC,” explains Centra co-founder Ray Trapani in the doc. “Anytime you find a market like that, you just have to figure out how to exploit [it].”
Trapani and his cohorts managed to successfully do just that for a time, raising millions of unregulated fundraising dollars along the way. But when a New York Times reporter — and eventually, the authorities — dared to start asking questions, Centra’s web of lies unraveled. Using original interviews with Trapani, his family, and his co-conspirators, as well as a victim who poured money into Centra and the investigators who eventually brought the company’s malfeasance to light, Bitconned shines a light on just how easy it can be to create the illusion of a legitimate enterprise. After all, what is a scam if not an entrepreneurial venture situated firmly on the wrong side of the law?
➤Bitconned是一个加密货币的警示故事
继2022年的《别信任何人:虚拟货币悬案》之后,Netflix 2日又推出了一部有关加密货币诈骗案的纪录片《加密货币大骗局》(Bitconned)。该片深入探讨了2017年ICO(首次代币发行)热潮背后的故事,揭露了「假签帐卡公司」Centra Tech如何诈骗超过2,500万美元。
纪录片特别聚焦于共同创办人Ray Trapani的特殊性格,展示他如何偷取客户的虚拟货币帐户资金,甚至对被害者进行嘲讽。
Netflix介绍,《加密货币大骗局》主要通过对Centra Tech成员和《纽约时报》记者的采访,追溯了该公司从2017年创立到事迹败露的整个过程。 -
密码保护:The department’s Madoff Victim Fund(MVF),Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme 2023.12.11 ☑Gov ☑U.S.,美国
The Justice Department announced today that the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its ninth distribution of over $158.9 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme.
In this distribution, payments will be sent to 24,875 victims across the globe, bringing their total recoveries to 91% of their fraud losses. Through its nine distributions, MVF has paid over $4.22 billion to 40,843 victims as compensation for losses they suffered from the collapse of BLMIS.
➤P.S. 1.Bernie Madoff: Who He Was, How His Ponzi Scheme Worked 2.‘He’s a financial serial killer’: how Bernie Madoff became the monster of Wall Street 3.Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the nation’s biggest investment fraud, dies at 82
➤美国司法部今天宣布司法部麦道夫案受骗者基金开始第九次分配1.589 亿美元。
美国司法部周一(12.11)宣布,伯尼·麦道夫 (Bernie Madoff)因历史上最大的庞氏骗局被捕 15 年后,这位名誉扫地的金融家的近 25,000 名受害者将获得 1.589 亿美元,使他们的追偿总额达到损失资金的 91%。
至此,麦道夫受害者基金已向麦道夫的 40,843 名受害者发放了九笔总额超过 42.2 亿美元的款项,作为对他们因麦道夫投资证券业务倒闭而遭受的损失的补偿。
“在麦道夫的众多受害者中,不仅有富人和机构投资者,还有慈善机构和养老基金——其中一些机构代表那些靠养老金账户过退休生活的个人向麦道夫投资了资金,”纽约南区联邦检察官达米安·威廉姆斯补充道,“那些将钱托付给麦道夫的人所承受的经济损失是毁灭性的。”
美国司法部表示,该基金成功为受害者提供的恢复水平“超出了预期”。
➤附:☑媒体报道
2023.12.20 伯尼·麦道夫:他是谁,他的庞氏骗局是如何运作的
2023.1.4 “他是金融连环杀手”:伯尼·麦道夫如何成为华尔街的怪物
2021.4.14 美国最大投资诈骗案主谋伯尼·麦道夫去世,享年 82 岁
➤伯尼·麦道夫在媒体和流行文化中被描绘成恶棍。例如,在 HBO 2009 年的《遏制你的热情》一集中,贾森·亚历山大(在《宋飞传》中扮演乔治)被麦道夫欺骗,失去了从他发明的虚构应用程序中赚到的所有钱。麦道夫(或类似的山寨品)也曾出现过其他虚构人物,例如伍迪·艾伦的电影《蓝色茉莉花》中的一对夫妇,以及埃莉诺·利普曼的小说《顶层公寓B 的风景》中的主角。 -
密码保护:FTX,Sam Bankman-Fried 2023.12.30 ☑Press ☑U.S.,美国
Prosecutors have decided against pursuing a second trial against disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
In a note to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Friday, the U.S. government said that much of the evidence that would have been presented had already been submitted during the first trial.
In November, following a month’s worth of testimony from nearly 20 witnesses, a jury found the former FTX chief executive guilty of all seven criminal counts against him.
➤FTX加密货币交易所。萨姆·班克曼·弗里德 (Sam Bankman-Fried)。
12 月 30 日,据媒体报道,美国联邦政府检察官在本周五的一封信中告知主审 班克曼-弗里德 (Bankman-Fried) 一案的法官 Lewis Kaplan,放弃对SBF进一步指控,SBF 将不会因额外指控而面临第二次审判。检察官表示,将在第二次审判中提出的大部分证据已经在 SBF 的初审中提出,法官可以在 3 月 28 日的量刑中考虑到这些证据,本次撤销指控旨在避免因二审而延误量刑,联邦政府认为这将有利于及时公正地解决此案。
检方表示,这起针对前亿万富翁案件的「强烈公众利益」超过二审的好处。检察官表示,鉴于SBF定于 3 月 28 日的量刑可能包括没收和归还其罪行受害者的命令,因此“这里的利益尤为重要”,因为受害者正急切地等待 FTX 账户在 2022 年 11 月倒闭后获得赔偿的详细信息。
据悉,本次撤销的「额外 6 项指控」包含 SBF 在政治竞选中的财务违规行为、串谋贿赂外国官员、串谋实施银行欺诈、串谋经营无牌汇款业务,以及实质性证券欺诈和商品欺诈。(政治捐款及贿赂官员涉案金额约为 1 亿美元) -
密码保护:CNN Special Report “Billion-dollar scam” 2023.12.27 ☑Press ☑U.S.,美国
A sophisticated criminal network is using modern day slaves to con thousands of Americans out of their life savings
➤美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 的伊万·沃森 (Ivan Watson) 报道了缅甸的犯罪团伙如何运营诈骗中心,从美国人手中骗取数百万美元。正如他发现的那样,他们强迫人口贩卖受害者做肮脏的工作。
➤CNN 特别报告 “数十亿美元的骗局”
一个复杂的犯罪网络正在利用现代奴隶来骗取数千名美国人的毕生积蓄