'Naive' Crypto Exec Asks For Leniency After Fraud Conviction

By Chris Villani (January 27, 2023, 11:53 AM EST) -- The founder of a defunct cryptocurrency company has pushed back on a request from federal prosecutors that he be sent to prison for 13 years following a fraud conviction, asking a judge to consider his "naiveté" and sentence him to no more than 30 months behind bars....

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