{"id":"tp-2799","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Crypto escrow company head charged with $7M fraud scheme by US DOJ","author":"Charissa Echavez","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/regulation/2799","datePublished":"2019-07-26T07:33:13.000Z","dateModified":"2019-07-26T07:33:13.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Federal authorities in New York charged the principal of a cryptocurrency escrow company with multiple fraud charges after slipping away $7 million to purchase Bitcoin that never materialized.","section":"Regulation","references":[{"title":"criminal complaint","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1187216/download"},{"title":"said","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/principal-cryptocurrency-escrow-company-charged-manhattan-federal-court-fraudulent"},{"title":"pump-and-dump","url":"https://tokenpost.com/FBI-is-probing-Long-Island-Iced-Teas-blockchain-rebrand-for-insider-trading-2795"}]}