Story has also been picked up by Times of India
Ex-Bitcoin executive gets 2-year jail for illicit transfers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Bitcoin-executive-gets-2-year-jail-for-illicit-transfers/articleshow/45583305.cms?
Topic: [2014-12-20] NDTV: Bitcoin Backer Gets Two Years Prison for Illicit Transfers (Read 1084 times)
December 20, 2014, 08:19:18 PM
December 20, 2014, 06:01:33 AM
Bitcoin Backer Gets Two Years Prison for Illicit Transfers
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/bitcoin-backer-gets-two-years-prison-for-illicit-transfers-637370
Charlie Shrem, an outspoken supporter of Bitcoins, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for indirectly helping to send $1 million in the digital currency to the Internet black-market bazaar Silk Road.
Shrem, a former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan to forfeit $950,000 after pleading guilty in September to aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business.
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/bitcoin-backer-gets-two-years-prison-for-illicit-transfers-637370
Charlie Shrem, an outspoken supporter of Bitcoins, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for indirectly helping to send $1 million in the digital currency to the Internet black-market bazaar Silk Road.
Shrem, a former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan to forfeit $950,000 after pleading guilty in September to aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business.
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