The U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2023.
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The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person for orchestrating a $1.9 billion cryptocurrency fraud scheme known as HyperFund, as well as by other names.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in a related civil action charged two of those individuals for…