{"id":615925,"date":"2026-06-18T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/florida-man-pleads-guilty-for-promoting-1-8b-hyperfund-crypto-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:53:15","slug":"florida-man-pleads-guilty-for-promoting-1-8b-hyperfund-crypto-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/florida-man-pleads-guilty-for-promoting-1-8b-hyperfund-crypto-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man pleads guilty for promoting $1.8B \u2018HyperFund\u2019 crypto fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney \u201cBitcoin Rodney\u201d Burton faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.<\/p>\n<p>A 56-year-old Florida resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business in connection with a $1.8 billion fraudulent crypto platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Maryland, Rodney \u201cBitcoin Rodney\u201d Burton conspired to provide unlicensed money transmitting services to promote HyperFund, a global wire-fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly O. Hayes, US Attorney for the District of Maryland and agents from the Washington Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit and Homeland Security Investigations, New York, announced Burton\u2019s guilty plea on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/florida-man-pleads-guilty-to-18b-crypto-fraud-scheme?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney \u201cBitcoin Rodney\u201d Burton faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. A 56-year-old Florida resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business in connection with a $1.8 billion fraudulent crypto platform. According to a statement from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-615925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615925","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=615925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}