{"id":517432,"date":"2025-11-20T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=771876"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:30:24","slug":"california-man-pleads-guilty-in-100m-crypto-fraud-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/california-man-pleads-guilty-in-100m-crypto-fraud-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"California Man Pleads Guilty in $100M+ Crypto Fraud Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ddd12222-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"California Man Pleads Guilty in $100M+ Crypto Fraud Conspiracy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A Californian man, Kunal Mehta (45), known by aliases like \u201cThe Accountant,\u201d has pleaded guilty to charges related to a multi-state conspiracy that stole hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency using social engineering schemes. The Anatomy of the Conspiracy A Californian man (45) recently pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his role in a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Californian man, Kunal Mehta (45), known by aliases like \u201cThe Accountant,\u201d has pleaded guilty to charges related to a multi-state conspiracy that stole hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency using social engineering schemes. The Anatomy of the Conspiracy A Californian man (45) recently pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his role in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-517432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}