New York, NY – Applier of the Avraham mango markets “AVI” Eisenberg, who stole $ 110 million in the decentralized financial protocol now cleared in 2022, was sentenced to 52 months in prison on Thursday – on his guilty plea to the possession of children’s sexual operations, not for his conviction on the crypt.
The conviction occurs a year after a New York jury admitted Eisenberg guilty of wire fraud, fraud of raw materials and manipulation of raw materials for his cascade on the mango markets, and a year after pleading guilty to the possession of child sexual abuse (CSAM), which was found on its devices after its arrest.
Defense lawyers moved to a new trial or acquittal on mango market accusations last year, saying that the Ministry of Justice had continued the case in the wrong place (the South New York District), that the government had not correctly proven that the perpetual MNng was a “exchange”, that the prize for the mngo “was to portray”.
During a hearing in Manhattan on Thursday, judge Arun Subramanian declared that he would condemn Eisenberg to more than four years in prison at FCI Otisville, an average security establishment about two hours by road from Manhattan, but that there was a “no zero chance, I will give this motion” linked to the accusations related to the mango markets.
The majority of any penalty would in any case be linked to the accusation of CSAM, said the judge.
“I think that in this specific area, general deterrence has more weight … The only way to try to resolve the tide of the distribution of this material” is a prison sentence, said the judge, before reading three declarations of witnesses.
The judge also said that he had recognized Eisenberg’s efforts to better understand the impact of his crime, but that a prison sentence was still necessary. Eisenberg is sentenced to five years of probation with strict rules after his release from prison, said the judge, but will have to install surveillance software on all his electronic devices and follow an ambulatory drug program.
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In their submission of conviction in the court, prosecutors asked Eisenberg to serve between 6.5 and 8 years in prison, stressing the seriousness of his offenses. Although Eisenberg argued that his Crypto commercial actions on the mango markets were “in conformity” to the protocol and therefore did not break the law (an argument that a jury clearly did not buy), the prosecutors say that Eisenberg was well aware that what he was doing was a crime. Before his mango markets were responsible, he had brought an action against someone else to manipulate the market linked to the crypto and fled the country for Israel once his identity as an attacker was revealed.
I believe that all our actions were legal actions on the open market, using the protocol as designed, even if the development team did not fully provide all the consequences of the definition of parameters as they are.
– Avraham Eisenberg (@avi_eisen) October 15, 2022
Prosecutors also detailed the accusations of Eisenberg sexual abuse materials, telling the judge that between 2017 and 2022, he downloaded 1,274 sexually explicit images and children’s videos – including toddlers and two -month infants – as well as “” representations of Sadistic violence and masochism against children “.
In their own submission of condemnation to court, Eisenberg and his lawyers tried to blame his strict religious education and his “struggles of a lifetime to comply with social norms” for his crimes, calling him “fundamentally decently decent” and detailing his challenges by adapting the “daily horrors” of life.
