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New Jersey Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Using Bitcoin to Pay Chinese Fentanyl Suppliers
A North Haledon man will spend the next dozen years behind bars for helping to flood American streets with over a metric ton of fentanyl-related drugs, paid for with hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin sent directly to Chinese suppliers. William Panzera received his 12-year prison sentence on Thursday following last year’s conviction on drug trafficking and international money laundering conspiracy charges, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. tweet The sentencing caps a six-year operation that moved massive quantities of deadly synthetic opioids from China into New Jersey ... (full story)