US Sentences Man to 3 Years in Prison for Defrauding Investors in Crypto Mining Scheme A U.S. district judge has sentenced a man to three years in prison in a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining scheme. The defendant “misappropriated his victims’ money and failed to provide them with the miners and miner-hosting services they had purchased from him,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). news.bitcoin.com/us-sentences-man-to-3-years-in-prison-for-defrauding-investors-in-crypto-mining-scheme/