Within the span of a few years, two brothers from Ohio were imprisoned for cryptocurrency-related crimes. The first, Larry Dean Harmon, was arrested and charged for a money laundering conspiracy arising from his operation of Helix, a cryptocurrency mixing service operating on the dark web. Shortly after Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) seized Larry’s Bitcoin wallets, his younger brother, Gary James Harmon, used Larry’s passwords to steal a portion of the Bitcoin back from the seized wallets. In April 2023, Gary was sentenced to four years in prison for his theft from the government. To reach more click above.
