2026-04-17 06:25:14 UTC

Texas man in $20M Meta-1 Coin fraud sentenced to 23 years in prison

Meta-1 Coin was sold and marketed from 2018 to 2023 as an investment backed by $44 billion in gold and $1 billion in artworks, which turned out to be fictional.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-1-coin-fraud-robert-dunlap-23-years-sentence

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