An American cryptocurrency researcher currently serving time in prison for helping North Korea evade sanctions has requested to be resentenced following the amendment of guidelines, which could see him released a year early.
Virgil Griffith, who formerly headed the Ethereum Foundation, made the plea via his attorneys on Wednesday in a letter to Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
An American cryptocurrency researcher currently serving time in prison for helping North Korea evade sanctions has requested to be resentenced following the amendment of guidelines, which could see him released a year early.
Virgil Griffith, who formerly headed the Ethereum Foundation, made the plea via his attorneys on Wednesday in a letter to Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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