{"id":14315,"date":"2014-01-28T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=14315"},"modified":"2014-01-28T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:11:25","slug":"ceo-of-bitinstant-arrested-in-us-for-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/ceo-of-bitinstant-arrested-in-us-for-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of BitInstant Arrested in US for Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hiding behind their computers, BitInstant defendants are charged with knowingly contributing to and facilitating anonymous drug sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Shrem, the vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to launder more than $1 million in the virtual currency tied to the illicit online bazaar Silk Road, can be freed on $1 million bond, a judge ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Shrem, 24, will remain under house arrest at his parents\u2019 home in Brooklyn, New York, with electronic monitoring, Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman said today in Manhattan federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Miller, a lawyer for Shrem, told the judge that his client was arrested yesterday at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he returned to New York after giving a speech about virtual currency in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/ceo-of-bitinstant-arrested-in-us-for-money-laundering\/charlie-shrem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14316\" alt=\"Charlie Shrem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Charlie-Shrem-147x300.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hiding behind their computers, BitInstant defendants are charged with knowingly contributing to and facilitating anonymous drug sales.&#8221; Charlie Shrem, the vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to launder more than $1 million in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/ceo-of-bitinstant-arrested-in-us-for-money-laundering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14318,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions\/14318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}