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LA Trader Faces Prosecution for Illegal Bitcoin-Fiat Exchange

12 Jun LA Trader Faces Prosecution for Illegal Bitcoin-Fiat Exchange

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A Bitcoin trader in Los Angeles, California is facing prosecution for allegedly running an unregistered multimillion dollar Bitcoin-fiat money transmitting business, NBC LA reported yesterday, June 11.

Under her pseudonym the ‘Bitcoin Maven’, Theresa Tetley, 50, reportedly earned at least $300,000 annually from her black market business, which ran between 2014 and 2017 via a listing on localbitcoins.com. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has contended that the ‘Maven’ exchanged between $6 and $9.5 mln in the course of her operations.

The case is reportedly considered to be the first of its kind in Southern California.

Tetley has pleaded guilty to federal charges of operating an unregistered money transmission business, as well as to conducting one financial transaction prosecutors are alleging involved proceeds from drug trafficking.

In the court papers, prosecutors accuse the Maven of “fuel[ing] a black-market financial system […] that purposely and deliberately existed outside of…

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