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U.S. Prosecutors Expecting Admission of Guilt Associated with Crime against JP Morgan


U.S. prosecutors will likely hear the second admission of crime commitment by offenders associated with one unlawful bitcoin exchange that one Israeli national owned and who carried out several hacking assaults against JP Morgan Chase & Co. and other organizations.

Prosecutors through their correspondence given to the federal court in Manhattan stated that Florida's Michael Murgio would plead guilty October 27 following accusation that he played a role within an operation of bribery for allowing the operators of the digital currency exchange acquire hold over a New Jersey credit union.

Murgio a lawyer in Florida has been accused together with Anthony Murgio the lawyer's son and Yuri Lebedev the operator of the exchange Coin.mix that Gery Shalon of Israel owned. It's reported that Shalon along with U.S national Joshua Samuel Aaron and another Israeli national Ziv Orenstein carried out a huge hack into the computers belonging to JPMorgan Chase and other firms as well as stole personal data belonging to over 100m Internauts. In this hacking operation, the hackers allegedly utilized Coin.mix for converting millions of USDs into the virtual currency bitcoin.

Murgio as well faces accusation that he bribed the credit union's chairman pastor Trevon Gross so he could hide behind the institution and exploit Coin.mix. Darkreading.com posted this, October 27, 2016.

In a unanimous bid, prosecutors indicated that Shalon, Aaron and Orenstein played the operators of one criminal enterprise which infiltrated the networks of 12 companies, capturing over 100m people's data.

Further according to prosecutors, starting from 2013, Coin.mix was being operated under Anthony Murgio that converted millions of USDs into Bitcoins, whereas computer-operations in the exchange were being done under Lebedev's supervision.

Also as per the indictment, Coin.mix evaded scrutiny with Lebedev and the Murgios gaining hold over the Jackson, New Jersey's "Helping Other People Excel Federal Credit Union" after bribing its chairman with USD150K.

Pleading not guilty are Gross, Lebedev and Anthony Murgio who're scheduled to be prosecuted next year February 6. Also pleading not guilty were Orenstein and Shalon after they were extradited from Israel to USA during June. Aaron at present resides in Russia.

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