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According to a former employee, his company, Tron, has a dedicated "market-making team" to pump the value of his cryptocurrency — "insider trading all the time"
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Other employees allege that after his acquisition of crypto exchange Poloniex, Sun siphoned off millions of dollars in Bitcoin that did not belong to the company
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Sun's trick? Always have an escape route. For him, that means constantly fleeing the country he's in
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Now Justin Sun is being investigated by the FBI. According to a subpoena viewed by The Verge, potential charges include: wire fraud, conspiracy or intent to commit wire fraud, swindling, money laundering… (cont.)
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…spending the spoils of a criminal enterprise, failure to register a security and lying about it, aiding and abetting a crime, and conspiracy to defraud the United States
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Fantastic reporting. Yet *another* reminder that if someone desperately, **desperately** is trying to hype you into buying into their scheme, it’s because they need people to scam.
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