His legal professionals say their shopper was put in a van on the day of his arrest and given a clipboard with a listing of names of a whole lot of the highest gamers within the crypto trade, from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin to Caitlin Lengthy, the founder and CEO of Custodia Financial institution, and instructed to present the FBI filth that will assist them make “dozens of convictions” in change for a lighter sentence. In addition they declare that Hlady, Nerayoff’s worker, was an FBI informant who exchanged 100 texts and 45 telephone calls with the investigating FBI agent forward of the pair’s arrest.