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He Promised Gold-Backed Crypto, Calling It "My Big Coin" - Now He Owes $7.6 Million
Two separate digital asset fraud schemes have resulted in the US federal court orders requiring perpetrators to pay over $9.1 million in restitution to defrauded victims, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced yesterday (Monday). In the larger of the two cases, Randall Crater of Heathrow, Florida, was ordered by the SUS District Court for the District of Massachusetts to pay $7.6 million in restitution for operating a fraudulent virtual currency scheme called My Big Coin (MBC). Crater, who is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence, misled investors with false claims about MBC's value and ... (full story)