Three men who built a crypto platform on the promise of safety just finished paying the FTC $16.5 million between them. The people who believed the promise lost billions. This is how the word "safe" was engineered into a marketing plan.
Alex Mashinsky, the man who told 1.7 million people their crypto was safe, is now sitting in a federal prison cell and writing $10 million checks to the government he defied. The rest of the bill, $4.72 billion, is suspended. Not forgiven. Suspended.
By Mark Tell · Apr 30
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