Crypto Broker Gets 160 Months In US Drug-Money Laundering Case

TL;DR: A Colombian crypto broker received a 160-month prison sentence in a US laundering and narcotics case, prosecutors announced October 21. The account describes a scheme moving criminal proceeds through Tether and US shell companies. A New York federal judge has sentenced Leonardo de Jesus Zuluaga Duque to 160 months in prison in a case involving cryptocurrency, drug proceeds and transfers through the US banking system. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the sentence on Wednesday.