An Ohio man photographed lounging in a bathtub full of dollar bills must serve four years in prison for stealing 713 Bitcoin from a computer device seized by the government in a case against his older brother.
Gary Harmon, 31, was sentenced and agreed to forfeit cryptocurrencies and other property valued at more than $20 million, the US Justice Department said.
Harmon admitted using his brother’s credentials to recreate eight Bitcoin wallets stored on a device in an Internal Revenue Service evidence locker in April 2020. He stole 713 digital valued then at about $4.9 million. That Bitcoin was among 4,877 digital tokens seized from his brother, Larry, who was charged in February 2020 with laundering $311 million in crypto transactions on Darknet sites.
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