A US layer goes on trial for his role in the OneCoin crypto scam. Mark Scott is accused of laundering some 400 million USD, transferring the proceeds of the scam out of the U.S., while helping to hide the true origin of the funds. Parts of those funds ended in Bank of Ireland accounts, while with the rest Scott bought a yacht, three homes and a Ferrari. The US prosecutors also said that while Scott was legally working as a partner in a well respected law firm in New York, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, this legal income was just “a fraction of the money he was paid to launder OneCoin fraud scheme proceeds”. The defense claims that Scott was not aware of what was going on and was just investing funds on behalf of OneCoin. According to Scott lawyers before starting to work with OneCoin he had asked a colleague to check if OneCoin is a “pyramid scheme”, and had been reassured “there was nothing illegal going on”. I will never understand that level of greed. This guy was already having a more than lucrative and perfectly legal career as a lawyer, and then went to on to mess that up out of greed.
Like extreme sports, here as well, they must feel some sort of satisfaction, balancing on the line, between the life and death, while his lawyer knowledge, in his own mind, was like a parachute - against the law. Haven't done his homework on excuse/alibi tho : ,,he had asked a colleague to check if OneCoin is a “pyramid scheme”,'' - Hey Bob, i gonna move few mils there & there for them, can you check, is everything okay with them ? - Yeah , sure. .... Opens google.... - They're fine, no debt. & this :
Here is an explanation of the scheme:https://cointelegraph.com/news/scale-of-onecoin-scam-unravels-amid-ongoing-court-hearings
Highly recommend this podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads May not be accessible for non UK type people. GAT
All joking aside, this story is so wild that it would really make a great movie, and I'd love to watch it.