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Ex-NFL Investor Gets Six Years in Prison for Crypto Scam
A former minority owner of the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings was ordered to serve more than six years behind bars, forfeit $740 million and pay $53 million in restitution after admitting he helped cryptocurrency exchanges avoid money-laundering rules. Reginald Fowler, 64, an Arizona businessman who was part of a group of investors that bought the Vikings in 2005, was sentenced to 75 months in prison Monday by US District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. in New York. Fowler pleaded guilty in April 2022 to five counts, including wire and bank fraud and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting ... (full story)