A Hall County man who once resided in Athens recently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New York to the largest cryptocurrency theft in U.S. history. James Zhong, 30, of Gainesville last week ...

Nov. 9—A Gainesville man pleaded guilty in New York federal court to stealing more than 50,000 Bitcoin worth billions of dollars from the dark web marketplace known as Silk Road, according to court ...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — A Hall County man has pleaded guilty to using a market on the dark web to illegally obtain more than $3 billion in Bitcoin. Federal prosecutors say investigators raided 32-year-old ...

The US Department of Justice announced Monday that it had seized $3.36 billion worth of bitcoin from James Zhong, a man who "unlawfully obtained" more than 50,000 bitcoin from a dark web marketplace ...

Property developer James Zhong pleaded guilty to wire fraud last week after he was caught with stolen cryptocurrency from the infamous dark web marketplace Silk Road. Last November, federal ...

The federal government has seized the real estate holdings of James Zhong, a Georgia resident convicted recently in the theft of a massive amount of bitcoin. Zhong held an 80% stake in RE&D ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A Georgia man who stole 50,000 Bitcoin, now worth potentially billions of dollars, from the dark web market Silk Road in September 2012 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice ...

The US is seeking the forfeiture of more than $1 billion in bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road online marketplace, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. In the second largest seizure in ...

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