Crypto Fowler
Pled Guilty Sentencing
Delay to April 20 Now
US Asks for Ban on
Gambling
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 15 – Arizona
based
crypto-currency
maven Reginald
Fowler, with
multiple
accounts with
the HSBC,
appeared ready
to plead
guilty on
January 15 to
a single
count,
"operation of
an unlicensed
money
transmittal
business."
After that
fell through on financial
issues, Fowler was hit with a
five count Superseding
Indictment, adding
as a fifth count
the catch-all,
Wire Fraud. On
March 5, U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Judge
Andrew L.
Carter
emphasized this fifth
count to
Fowler, see
below.
On
April 21,
2022, Fowler wrote in seeking for the
second time to
plead guilty,
and soon.
On April
22, Judge
Carter
approved and
scheduled it:
"Change of
Plea Hearing
set for
4/25/2022 at
02:00 PM
before Judge
Andrew L.
Carter Jr."
On April
25, Inner City
Press covered
the guilty plea
proceeding and
live tweeted
it here, vlog
here
Sentencing
was first set
for August - then
on June 22... On March
2, it was
pushed back
again to April
20, 2023 at
3:30 pm.
On
March 15, the
US Attorney's
Office wrote
in to ask Judge
Carter to
"restrict him
from gambling activities." They
says "the
Government has
obtained
records from a
casino company
in Arizona
that indicate
that during
the pendency of
the
defendant's
criminal case,
he has gambled
hundreds of
thousands of
dollar."
They do not say
if Fowler won or
lost, only
that "every
dollar the
defendant has
risked
at these
casinos is a
dollar less
likely to be
paid to
victims in restitution."
Watch
this site.
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