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Senior promoter in cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme sentenced to 240 months in prison.

www.justice.gov Senior Promoter In Cryptocurrency Ponzi Scheme Sentenced To 240 Months In Prison

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that on October 15, 2024, JUAN TACURI, a senior promoter in the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme known as Forcount (and later known as Weltsys) was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 240 months in prison by Un...

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Why can't you just say 20 years?
- Because the sentence is that judge’s baby
- Secret plot to switch to a lunar calendar
- They say the months so it sounds more scientific and reasonable than the reality of putting someone in a cage and torturing them for 20 years.
  
  Yah that is pretty terrible.
  Better to simply execute for all crimes, and abolish prisons.

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