A Normal man1 has been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge James Shadid to 48 months in federal prison for operating a bitcoin exchange. 55 year old John Powell of Normal, Illinois plead guilty to two counts of operating an unlicensed money service business.
Powell received US $3 million over an 18 month period up until February 2014. Upon completion of the sentence, Powell will serve three years of supervised release.
top kek! ↩
Here's possibly more info, …if not fabricated: http://i.imgur.com/55MwjMX.png
from: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ot7kc
In other news, a top Senate aide named Donny Ray Williams recently plead guilty to sexual assault. He was accused of drugging and raping a number of women as well as making threats to another person.
Williams will serve no jail time and five years of probation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-democratic-congressional-aide-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-assault/2014/12/02/0afae166-7a7a-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html
Ah, yes. Because standards.