The Government is seeking to forfeit, collectively: approximately 51,680.32473733 Bitcoin ZHONG's 80% interest in RE&D Investments, LLC, a Memphis-based company with substantial real estate holdings $661,900 in cash seized from ZHONG's home and various metals also seized from ZHONG's home. Department of Justice and today remains the Department's second largest financial seizure ever. This seizure was then the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the history of the U.S. On November 9, 2021, pursuant to a judicially authorized premises search warrant of Zhong's Gainesville, Georgia, house, law enforcement seized approximately 50,676.17851897 Bitcoin, then valued at over $3.36 billion.
Zhong pled guilty on Friday, November 4, 2022, before United States District Judge Paul G. Contact: November 2021, Law Enforcement Seized Over 50,676 Bitcoin Hidden in Devices in Defendant James Zhong's Home Zhong Has Now Pled Guilty to Unlawfully Obtaining that Bitcoin From the Silk Road Dark Web in 2012 Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Tyler Hatcher, the Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office ("IRS-CI"), announced today that James Zhong pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.
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