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Story: Las Vegas Fraudster Brent Kovar Convicted in $24M Crypto Scam, Faces 280 Years in Prison

By Pankaj K

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How the Scheme Actually Worked. The pitch was pretty standard for this kind of fraud.

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What 400-Plus Investors Lost. Four hundred investors. That's a lot of people sitting with financial losses right now, waiting to…

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Sentencing and What It Could Mean. The sentencing phase is next. That's where the court decides the actual number — somewhere between…

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Brent Kovar is going to prison. How long exactly isn't clear yet — but the maximum the court can hand down is 280 years.

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A federal jury convicted the Las Vegas businessman of running a $24 million cryptocurrency fraud that pulled in more than 400 investors.

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The pitch was pretty standard for this kind of fraud. Kovar and his associates told investors they were getting into a real, profitable cryptocurrency venture — one with…

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None of that held up. Prosecutors laid out evidence of fabricated documents and falsified reports, all designed to keep investors believing the operation was thriving when it…

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The jury didn't buy the defense. The verdict was unanimous.

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It's the kind of case that's become frustratingly common across the crypto sector — someone builds a credible-sounding investment wrapper around digital assets, leans on the…

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The court hasn't specified what restitution, if any, looks like here. Further legal proceedings may follow as efforts to recover lost funds continue — but that process is slow,…

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What the victims do have is a guilty verdict. Kovar was found guilty on multiple counts, and the jury's decision was clear.

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And the scale here is real. Twenty-four million dollars. Over 400 people deceived. That's not a small-time scam.

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The sentencing phase is next. That's where the court decides the actual number — somewhere between a slap on the wrist and 280 years, though federal judges rarely hand down…

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Crypto fraud sentencing has been inconsistent across jurisdictions. Some judges treat it like any other financial crime.

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