US prosecutors seek to retry MIT graduate in $25 million crypto theft case next year

Jinse Finance reported that U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking to retry two brothers accused of stealing approximately $25 million in cryptocurrency from traders on the Ethereum blockchain. According to court documents filed on Monday, U.S. government attorneys requested that District Court Judge Jessica Clarke schedule a new fraud trial as soon as possible, potentially as early as February. The case involves two defendants, James and Anton Peraire-Bueno, both recent graduates of MIT.