Jonathan Spalletti from Maryland faces 30 years in prison for two hacker attacks on a crypto platform. Uranium Finance is a fork of the automated market maker Uniswap on the BNB Chain platform, launched in April 2021. A few days after the launch, a hacker stole $1.4 million from the platform. He later returned the funds, except for $386,000. However, on April 28, the perpetrator exploited a bug in the Uranium smart contract. He withdrew $53.3 million from 26 liquidity pools. The hacker stole BTC, ETH, and the platform's own U92 tokens. As a result, the crypto platform ceased to exist.
Spalletti used the funds to purchase Pokémon cards, ancient Roman coins, and a piece of fabric from the original Wright brothers' plane. Law enforcement seized these in February 2025, along with $31 million in cryptocurrency. However, Spalletti surrendered to authorities only yesterday.