THELOGICALINDIAN - Anthony Murgio who was answerable for operating an actionable bitcoin barter has appeared in cloister to abode the accuse Murgio was arrested aback in July and has spent a few nights in Pinellas County bastille afore accepting a 100000 band to be freed
In the hearing, Murgio let his advocate Gregory W. Kehoe of the big law close Greenberg Traurig, do the talking. The audition was captivated afore the United States cloister judge, James C. Francis IV, in a federal cloister in Lower Manhattan.
According to federal authorities, bitcoin barter Coin.mx run by Murgio has been a area for online abyss to illegally barter the agenda bill bitcoin for banknote as allotment of a money-laundering scheme. If bedevilled on these charges, Murgio could face up to 20 years in prison.
Yuri Lebedev, Murgio’s accomplice in active the bitcoin exchange, was analogously answerable by prosecutors, is out on $25,000 bond.
Aside from accepting an actionable bitcoin exchange, Murgio is additionally allegedly complex in the hacking advance on JPMorgan Chase aftermost year. However, neither Murgio nor his accomplice accept been answerable with any violations apropos to this hacking attack, which compromised the claimed acquaintance advice of 83 actor chump accounts at the bank.
The FBI acclaimed that Murgio’s name alike in their aboriginal analysis on the JPMorgan hack, as Joshua Aaron, a acquaintance of Mr. Murgio and one of his academy classmates from Florida State, additionally came to the authorities’ absorption then.
For now, the FBI has beneath to allotment added capacity on their advancing analysis and whether or not Murgio is anon affiliated to the hack. People abreast on the amount said that Mr. Aaron ability accept acclimated advice aggregate in the breach, like purloined email addresses and chump home addresses, to put calm a account of abeyant victims to angle the stocks for their assorted schemes.
