Overview
- Nan Wu was sentenced in New York State court to a minimum of 6½ years in prison with five years of post-release supervision and was ordered to forfeit about 20 bitcoin, 3,297 Monero, and $12,857 in cash.
- FireBunnyUSA operated from 2019 to 2022, shipping more than 10,000 packages of cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, and other drugs to customers in all 50 states from bases in Queens and later California.
- Investigators say the ring laundered over $7.9 million by converting Monero into Bitcoin and moving funds through exchanges, with at least $734,000 converted to U.S. dollars and roughly $2.4 million routed abroad as Chinese yuan.
- Undercover Manhattan D.A. buys totaled 11 orders shipped into the city, search warrants seized kilogram‑level drug quantities and packaging supplies, and phones showed encrypted communications on Wickr and Telegram.
- Co-defendants Peng Peng Tang, Bowen Chen, Zixiang Lin, and Katie Montgomery received prison terms or conditional discharges with significant crypto and cash forfeitures, while Wu still awaits a separate federal sentence prosecutors have recommended at 6 to 8 years.