Jack Abramoff charged in cryptocurrency case

By Spencer Neale

Published June 25, 2020 10:13pm ET

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Jack Abramoff charged in cryptocurrency case — In an artist's rendering U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck, left, presides over the sentencing of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, right, in the SunCruz fraud case at the federal courthouse in Miami Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Abramoff and former business partner Adam Kidan plead guilty last year to conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from their $147.5 million purchase of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet. (AP Photo/Shirley Henderson) | SHIRLEY HENDERSON

Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist convicted of various corruption charges in the early 2000s, has been charged with conspiracy in a new cryptocurrency case filed by U.S. prosecutors.

In a statement released Thursday, Kristina Littman, the chief of the Security and Exchanges Commission Enforcement Division’s Cyber Unit, accused Abramoff and other defendants of falsifying information to investors of a novel cryptocurrency.

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