{"id":87353,"date":"2024-02-14T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T05:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=87353"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:20:56","slug":"bitcoin-money-launderer-ian-freeman-ordered-to-pay-3-5-million-to-scam-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2024\/bitcoin-money-launderer-ian-freeman-ordered-to-pay-3-5-million-to-scam-victims.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin money launderer Ian Freeman ordered to pay $3.5 million to scam victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nh\/pr\/ian-freeman-sentenced-8-years-prison-operating-bitcoin-money-laundering-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">New Hampshire<\/a> libertarian activist and radio show host convicted of using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/13\/crypto-market-today.html\">bitcoin<\/a> to launder tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/sentencing-delayed-for-nh-man-convicted-of-running-unlicensed-bitcoin-business\/3133730\/\" target=\"_blank\">romance scams<\/a> and internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/09\/bitcoin-atms-criminals-target-cryptocurrency-transactions.html\">fraud<\/a> was ordered to pay more than $3.5 million in restitution to 29 primarily elderly victims, prosecutors said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/13\/bitcoin-money-launderer-ian-freeman-ordered-to-pay-3point5-million.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) A New Hampshire libertarian activist and radio show host convicted of using bitcoin to launder tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from romance scams and internet fraud was ordered to pay more than $3.5 million in restitution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87354,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87353\/revisions\/87354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}