2025-02-21 11:09:24

Safemoon CTO pleads guilty in $200m crypto fraud case

Safemoon CTO Thomas Smith has pleaded guilty to charges in a $200 million crypto fraud case. US authories arrested the Safemoon exec, alongside CEO Braden John Karony, in 2023. Thomas Smith, the chief technology officer of SafeMoon LLC, has pleaded guilty to two charges of securities fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy. Smith pleaded guilty […] The post Safemoon CTO pleads guilty in $200m crypto fraud case appeared first on CoinJournal.
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