{"id":2883,"date":"2024-11-18T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T10:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2024-11-18T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T10:18:22","slug":"man-who-facilitated-bitcoin-laundering-worth-over-300m-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Facilitated Bitcoin Laundering Worth Over $300M Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An Ohio-based operator of the darknet cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to a three-year prison term after being found guilty of laundering over $300 million in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/operator-helix-darknet-cryptocurrency-mixer-sentenced-money-laundering-conspiracy-and\">U.S. Department of Justice<\/a>, 41-year-old <strong>Larry Dean Harmon<\/strong> was the brains behind Helix, a darknet mixer that played a crucial role in laundering customers\u2019 Bitcoin from 2014 to 2017. The platform became a preferred choice for online drug dealers looking to hide the trail of their illegal earnings. <\/p>\n<p>The service processed about 354,468 Bitcoin, equivalent to around $311.14 million at the time of the transactions and more than $32.52 billion at current &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/11\/42030758\/man-who-facilitated-bitcoin-laundering-worth-over-300m-awarded-a-three-year-jail-sentence\" alt=\"Man\" who facilitated bitcoin laundering worth over sentenced to years in prison>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ohio-based operator of the darknet cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to a three-year prison term after being found guilty of laundering over $300 million in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). What Happened: According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 41-year-old Larry Dean Harmon was the brains behind Helix, a darknet mixer that played a crucial role [&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-2883","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\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}