Pastor indicted for multi-million dollar crypto grift: DOJ
A 51-year-old Miami resident and pastor is accused of using his pulpit to swindle unsuspecting souls into a cryptocurrency scam.
According to a Jan. 8 release from the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Washington charged Francier Obando Pinillo with 26 counts of fraud, alleging he masterminded a cryptocurrency scheme that drained millions from investors between November 2021 and October 2023.
Pinillo’s alleged hustle, dubbed “Solano Fi,” wasn’t your average crypto hustle. It reportedly came to him in a “dream.”
As the pastor of Ministerio Apostólico Profético Tiempos de Poder, a Spanish-language church in Pasco, Washington, Pinillo assured his congregation…
