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As Spalletta Indicted for Uranium Finance Hack SDNY Cites Tornado Cash



As Spalletta Indicted for Uranium Finance Hack SDNY Cites Tornado Cash

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 30 รข€“ Jonathan Spalletta was arrested and arraigned on March 30 for two hacks of Uranium Finance in April 2021.

The second hack, the indictment alleges, netted $53 million which it says Spalletta "laundered including through the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash in order to buy Pokemon cards, antique Roman coins and a piece of the Wright brothers' original plane that Neil Armstrong had taken to the moon.

  To the moon! [Echoes of SafeMoon, prosecuted in EDNY]   Inner City Press was in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court when Spalletta was presented and sent up to Judge Jed S. Rakoff's courtroom for arraignment. 

 The case is USA v. Spalletta, 1:26-cr-118 (Rakoff)

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