DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro told The Post Thursday that $700 million seized from sophisticated cryptocurrency scammers will be returned to American victims.
“Unfortunately, it takes a while to be able to identify the individuals that this money belongs to,” Pirro said.
“It is a long and rigorous process to get that money into the hands of those victims that they belong to,” she added.
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“It’s not easy, but the money is now restrained. It can’t go further into a blockchain where we lose it. It’s just a question of time in terms of actually accessing it and getting it to victims. We’re on it.”