{"id":63193,"date":"2025-12-12T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63193"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:31:32","slug":"terra-founder-do-kwon-receives-15-year-prison-sentence-for-epic-40-billion-crypto-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=63193","title":{"rendered":"Terra Founder Do Kwon Receives 15-Year Prison Sentence For &#8216;Epic&#8217; $40 Billion Crypto Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency fraudster <strong>Do Kwon<\/strong> was handed a 15-year prison sentence Thursday for abetting the infamous  <strong>Terra\u00a0<\/strong>(CRYPTO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/luna\/usd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LUNA<\/a>) collapse that triggered one of the market\u2019s worst crashes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018A Generational Fraud\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. District Judge <strong>Paul A.\u00a0Engelmayer<\/strong>, who pronounced the sentence, slammed Kwon for repeatedly deceiving investors who had invested their life savings with him, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The judge described the fraud as \u201cepic\u201d and \u201cgenerational,\u201d asserting that few frauds in the history of federal prosecution have inflicted as much harm.<\/p>\n<p>During a hearing at the Manhattan &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/12\/49353491\/terra-founder-do-kwon-receives-15-year-prison-sentence-for-epic-40-billion-crypto-fraud?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Terra\" founder do kwon receives prison sentence for billion crypto fraud>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency fraudster Do Kwon was handed a 15-year prison sentence Thursday for abetting the infamous Terra\u00a0(CRYPTO:\u00a0LUNA) collapse that triggered one of the market\u2019s worst crashes. \u2018A Generational Fraud\u2019 U.S. District Judge Paul A.\u00a0Engelmayer, who pronounced the sentence, slammed Kwon for repeatedly deceiving investors who had invested their life savings with him, according to Reuters. The [&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-63193","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\/63193","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=63193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}