New York, NY-Mango Markets Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg, who stole $ 110 million from the already disappeared Protocol of Finance Decentralized in 2022, was sentenced to 52 months in prison on Thursday, for its guilt of the possession of child sexual exploitation material, not for its conviction for the robbery of crypto.
The sentence occurs a year after a jury in New York found Eisenberg guilty of cable fraud, basic products fraud and manipulation of basic products for his trick of the mango markets, and a year after he declared himself separately guilty of the possession of child sexual abuse (CSAM), which was found in his devices after his arrest.
The defense lawyers moved for a new trial or an acquittal on charges related to mango markets last year, claiming that the Department of Justice pursued the case in the wrong place (the southern district of New York), that the Government had not proven adequately that the perpetual Mngo was “Lieos” was disappointed, “what was immersed,” what was immersed. ”
At a hearing in Manhattan on Thursday, Judge Arun Subramanian said that he would sentence Eisenberg to more than four years in prison in FCI Otisville, a medium security installation to approximately two hours by car from Manhattan, but that there was a “possibility of zero that did not grant that motion” related to charges related to the mango market.
Most of any prayer would be related to the position of CSAM anyway, said the judge.
“I think that in this specific area, the general deterrence has more weight … the only way to try to stop the tide of the distribution of this material” is through a prison sentence, said the judge, before reading three witness statements.
The judge also said that he recognized Eisenberg’s effort 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 being released from prison, the judge said, but will have to install monitoring software on all its electronic devices and go through an ambulatory drug program.
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In their submission to the court, prosecutors requested that Eisenberg deliver between 6.5 and 8 years in prison, emphasizing the seriousness of their crimes. Although Eisenberg has maintained that his commercial cryptography actions in mango markets were “complying” with the protocol and, therefore, did not violate the law (an argument that a jury clearly did not buy), prosecutors say that Eisenberg was very aware that what he was doing was a crime. Before his robbery in the mango markets, he had filed a demand against another person for the manipulation of the market -related market, and fled the country by Israel once his identity as an attacker was presented.
I believe that all our actions were legal market actions, using the protocol as designed, even if the development team did not completely anticipate all the consequences of establishing parameters such as.
– Avraham Eisenberg (@avi_eisen) October 15, 2022
Prosecutors also detailed the positions of Eisenberg’s child sexual abuse, telling the judge that between 2017 and 2022, he downloaded 1,274 images and sexually explicit videos of children, including young children and two -month -old babies, as well as “representations of sadistic violence and handocism against children.”
In their own submission of sentence to the Court, Eisenberg and his lawyers tried to blame their strict religious education and their life of a lifetime “struggle to adjust to social norms” for their crimes, calling him a “fundamentally decent person” and detailing his challenges that adapt to the “daily horrors” of life in the jail.
