Overview
- He pleaded not guilty after his Feb. 3 arrest in Pennsylvania and a magistrate judge ordered him detained with a public defender appointed.
- The indictment alleges activity from July 2023 through December 2025 involving numerous accounts used to receive victim transfers, rapid crypto purchases, and foreign remittances.
- Court filings say he worked with scammers using the aliases “Rachel Jude” and “Ned McMurray” and that he knew they were fraudsters directing romance, tax, and business email compromise schemes.
- Prosecutors say he continued processing transfers after FBI agents warned him in 2025 that the funds were stolen, and agents found more than 100 payment cards when he was arrested.
- Evidence cited includes a Bank of America account that bought about $190,000 in cryptocurrency after a roughly $200,000 deposit, and investigators are probing a $930,943 Treasury check for possible tax offenses as he faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted.