Reportedly, he scammed his victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by tricking them into giving him money to invest in cryptocurrency using his company CabbageTech.He was sentenced to three years in prison as a result of the scheme that left one victim out $167,000.
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Crypto Scammer Gets 3 Years in Prison After Judge Calls Him 'Evil'
- Saturday, Jan 18 2020
- News
- Written by FinTech News Brief Staff
Patrick McDonnell, of New York City, was described by the sentencing judge in his cryptocurrency scam as “evil” after he pled guilty to charges from last summer. So reports The New York Daily News.
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