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Title: [2018-07-10] LocalBitcoins Trader 'Bitcoin Maven' Sentenced to Year in Prison
Post by: ruthbabe on July 10, 2018, 11:03:33 PM
A Los Angeles bitcoin trader was sentenced Monday to one year in federal prison after she admitted to operating an unlawful money transmission business.

Theresa Tetley, a former stockbroker and real estate investor based in California, was also fined $20,000 and will give up 40 bitcoins (an amount worth roughly $254,000), nearly $300,000 in cash and 25 assorted gold bars, according to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice.

More here, https://www.coindesk.com/localbitcoins-trader-bitcoin-maven-sentenced-to-year-in-prison/