A $25 million criminal case is becoming a hot topic in the cryptocurrency community, as two brothers accused of Ethereum fraud have just presented a controversial legal argument: the case should be dismissed entirely due to the new policy of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump.
Two MIT geniuses and allegations of Ethereum fraud
Anton and James Pepaire-Bueno – two brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
#MIT ) – were once hailed as outstanding programmers. However, they were charged last year for exploiting the transaction verification mechanism on the Ethereum network to steal $25 million in ETH from other traders in just a few minutes.