May 7, 2026, 10:07 p.m. ET
The spoils of their digital plundering funded lavish parties and luxury splurges. But when the operators of a sprawling cryptocurrency racketeering ring needed old-fashioned muscle to steal from their victims, they called on GothFerrari.
This week, GothFerrari – whose real name is Marlon Ferro, a 20-year-old from Santa Ana, California – was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for his role in a vast conspiracy of fraud that fleeced U.S. victims out of more than $263 million in cryptocurrency. He was also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution and serve three years of supervised release.
“Marlon Ferro served as the criminal enterprise’s instrument of last resort,” said Jeanine Pirro, U.S….
