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American Pastor Jailed For Bitcoin Fraud by amoss: 4:38pm On Nov 01, 2017
An American Pastor who goes by the name Trevon Gross has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Coin.mx exchange case, which involved bribery and use of a long-established church credit union.

Trecon Gross is reportedly the third person to be sentenced in the case.

According to Bitcoin News Authorities allege in United States of America v. Anthony R. Murgio, Yuri Lebedev, Trevón Gross the Pastor played a key role in enabling his co-defendants to operate an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange, Coin.mx, by allowing the two other men access to his church’s credit union.

Credit unions operate under slightly different reporting laws, often operating more informally with regard to reporting regulations and know-your-customer (KYC) laws.

Pastor Gross of Hope Cathedral, authorities maintain, as Chairman of the Board for the church’s Hope Federal Credit Union handed over effective operations of the bank to two Florida men while receiving upwards of 150,000 USD in bribes. The Pastor insists he believed the money to be donations.

According to Bitcoin news Trevon was endorsed by Joel Osteen. He was reported to have continued his official ministerial work throughout the indictment, arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing. According to the church’s website as of this writing, he maintains “degrees from the University of Virginia, Duke University and further graduate work at Harvard University.” No mention is made of his involvement with Coin.mx nor the surrounding legal troubles.

He is well-known in Prosperity Gospel circles, appearing on the Trinity Broadcast Network, and was endorsed, shortly before the present scandal law enforcement began investigating, by noted televangelist Joel Osteen.

Not long after, Hope Cathedral’s credit union was being linked to a money laundering exchange due to Pastor Gross’ placing two men now serving prison sentences on the bank’s board. The exchange that ran through his Chairmanship was linked by authorities to an international crime syndicate, authorities claim, which is said “to be responsible for a data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co, revealed in 2014, that exposed more than 83 million accounts,” according to Brendan Pierson of Reuters.
SOURCE: https://pageone.ng/2017/11/01/trevon-gross-bitcoin-fraud/
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