CluCoin 创始人承认窃取 110 万美元投资者资金用于在线赌博

奥斯汀·迈克尔·泰勒 (Austin Michael Taylor)，40 岁，来自佛罗里达州迈阿密，因电信诈骗罪面临最高 20 年监禁。

The founder of a Miami-based cryptocurrency project has pleaded guilty to stealing over $1 million from investors and spending the money at online casinos, according to court documents filed in Florida last week.

根据上周在佛罗里达州提交的法庭文件，迈阿密一家加密货币项目的创始人承认从投资者那里窃取了超过 100 万美元，并将这些钱花在了在线赌场上。

Austin Michael Taylor, 40, of Maryland, founded CluCoin in the spring of 2021 and marketed the project to his “large Internet following” as a streamer, with the stated goal of using the funds raised to fund charities.

40 岁的马里兰州奥斯汀·迈克尔·泰勒 (Austin Michael Taylor) 于 2021 年春天创立了 CluCoin，并以主播身份向他的“大量互联网追随者”推销该项目，其既定目标是将筹集到的资金用于资助慈善事业。

After CluCoin’s initial coin offering in May 2021, the project’s trading volume and value declined “precipitously,” according to court documents. This prompted Taylor to steer CluCoin “away from its original charity focus.”

法庭文件显示，CluCoin 于 2021 年 5 月首次代币发行后，该项目的交易量和价值“急剧下降”。这促使泰勒引导 CluCoin“偏离其最初的慈善重点”。

Throughout 2022, while Taylor was managing CluCoin and making promises to investors about its activities — including the purported development of a metaverse-based video game called “Xenia” — his lawyers said, Taylor was “secretly succumbing to a gambling addiction.”

整个 2022 年，当泰勒管理 CluCoin 并向投资者做出有关其活动的承诺时——包括据称开发一款名为“Xenia”的基于虚拟宇宙的视频游戏——他的律师表示，泰勒“秘密地沉迷于赌博成瘾”。

In total, Taylor transferred $1.14 million worth of investor funds to online casinos including Stake.com, his lawyers said.

泰勒的律师表示，泰勒总共将价值 114 万美元的投资者资金转移到了 Stake.com 等在线赌场。

In January 2023, Taylor publicly admitted to using investor funds for online gambling and voluntarily ceded control of the project to his business associates.

2023年1月，泰勒公开承认使用投资者资金进行在线赌博，并自愿将该项目的控制权交给他的商业伙伴。

Taylor pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Aug. 15. As part of his plea agreement, Taylor agreed to forfeit $1.14 million in ill-gotten gains for victim restitution.

泰勒于 8 月 15 日承认了一项电信诈骗罪。作为认罪协议的一部分，泰勒同意没收 114 万美元的非法所得，用于赔偿受害者。

Taylor is set to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Becerra of the Southern District of Florida on Oct. 31 at 10:00 a.m. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

泰勒定于 10 月 31 日上午 10 点被美国佛罗里达州南区地方法院法官杰奎琳·贝塞拉 (Jacqueline Becerra) 宣判，最高可判处 20 年监禁。