“Victims are at the core of everything we do at the Department of Justice,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, in a press release. “As we did in this complex investment fraud case, the Department pursues forfeiture to take the profit out of crime and then use that money to compensate victims wherever possible.”
Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, called the announcement "an important step toward returning funds to those harmed," while James C. Barnacle Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI New York Field Office, noted the "monumental" victim losses, saying many "unknowingly depleted their savings for a fraudulent investment scheme in an emerging financial ecosystem that would never pay out."
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