Crypto Scammer Truglia Gets 12 Years Prison, Up From 18 Months

(Bloomberg) – A man sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in the crypto currency in his plan to play $ 22 million, saw that his sentence increased up to 12 years after he did not repay his victim.

Nicholas Truglia, US regional judge Alvin Hellerstein’ın about $ 20.4 million to pay a previous agreement to pay a previous agreement after determining a new sentence took a new sentence. Truglia’s lawyers immediately argued that Hellerstein abused his appreciation of such a long prison sentence.

In 2021, Truglia was found guilty of joining a complex plan to seize the victim’s mobile phone and play more than $ 20 million of the crypto currency. He was accused of as part of a ring of “bad computer geniuses ılan, which deceived the telecom employees to direct customers to the pirates of customers to computer pirates.

The group targeted Michael Terpin, the founder and general manager of Transform Group, who recommended Blockchain businesses about public relations. Computer pirates hired Truglia to turn the stolen digital coins into Bitcoin, after unloading Truglia’s crypto currency accounts.

During the first penalty hearing of Truglia, it turned out that they had $ 53 million assets, including crypto, art and jewelery. His lawyer Mark Gombiner, Truglia in a court, a Wells Fargo & Co. He argued that he has “delivered every valuable asset he has reached,” including all the money in his account.

The case is US / Truglia, 19-CR-00921, the US Regional Court, the Southern Region of New York (Manhattan).

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