{"id":68220,"date":"2026-02-14T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/judge-sentences-pgi-founder-to-20-years-for-201-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:49:34","slug":"judge-sentences-pgi-founder-to-20-years-for-201-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/judge-sentences-pgi-founder-to-20-years-for-201-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sentences PGI Founder to 20 Years for $201 Million Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>The CEO of Praetorian Group International has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a global bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 investors of over $201 million. Deceptive Trading Promises A U.S. judge has sentenced Ramil Ventura Palafox, 61, to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme through [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/judge-sentences-pgi-founder-to-20-years-for-201-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) The CEO of Praetorian Group International has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a global bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 investors of over $201 million. Deceptive Trading Promises A U.S. judge has sentenced Ramil Ventura Palafox, 61, to 20 years in prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}