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 – 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) *** Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material / documents on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron. And/or join on Substack here, for Extra like on X for Subscribers Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station, NY NY 10013 Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540 Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.  Copyright 2006-2026 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com