Virgil Griffith Pleads Not Guilty to Evading U.S. Sanctions in North Korea Jaunt
Cointelegraph
Published Jan 30, 2020 05:11PM ET
Updated Jan 30, 2020 07:02PM ET
Virgil Griffith Pleads Not Guilty to Evading U.S. Sanctions in North Korea Jaunt
Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith entered a plea of not guilty Thursday afternoon in a Southern (NYSE:SO) District of New York courthouse. Griffith is charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act after traveling to North Korea (DRPK) in April 2019 to attend a cryptocurrency conference.
If convicted, Griffth, who once called himself a “disruptive technologist” whose aim was to “make the Internet a better and more interesting place,” could face up to 20 years in prison. He traveled up from Alabama to attend the arraignment and appeared composed throughout, answering with a firm “Innocent” when Judge Castel asked how he would plea.
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