{"id":25933,"date":"2025-05-09T05:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25933"},"modified":"2025-05-09T05:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:46:33","slug":"celsius-founder-alex-mashinsky-gets-12-year-prison-sentence-for-securities-and-commodities-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25933","title":{"rendered":"Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Gets 12-Year Prison Sentence For Securities and Commodities Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Alex Mashinsky<\/strong>, the founder and former CEO of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency lender\u00a0<strong>Celsius Network<\/strong>, was sentenced to a 12-year prison term for securities and commodities fraud on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The sentencing was delivered\u00a0by U.S. District Judge <strong>John\u00a0Koeltl<\/strong> in Manhattan, according to a Reuters report. Federal prosecutors charged Mashinsky with deceiving customers about the safety of Celsius and artificially boosting the value of the exchange\u2019s native token, <strong>Celsius <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">CEL<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had pushed for a minimum 20-year prison term, claiming it was a \u201cjust punishment\u201d for Mashinsky\u2019s actions that caused thousands of victims and led to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45309505\/celsius-founder-alex-mashinsky-gets-12-year-prison-sentence-for-securities-and-commodities\" alt=\"Celsius\" founder alex mashinsky gets prison sentence for securities and commodities fraud>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency lender\u00a0Celsius Network, was sentenced to a 12-year prison term for securities and commodities fraud on Thursday. What Happened: The sentencing was delivered\u00a0by U.S. District Judge John\u00a0Koeltl in Manhattan, according to a Reuters report. Federal prosecutors charged Mashinsky with deceiving customers about the safety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-25933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}