Plea Agreement of the Attorney, COO and Co-Founder (22-cr-80157)

Excerpts from the plea agreement filed on 11 October 2022 in the separate case of the attorney who was Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. Full document on CourtListener.

Whose document is this? This document is from the separate case (No. 22-cr-80157) against the attorney who co-founded DeFi Money Market and owned 50% of Blockchain Credit Partners, and who at the time was Chief Legal Officer of the Florida finance company, Chief Operating Officer of National Financial Holdings, Inc. and of National Financial Holdings Technology LLC, Managing Member of NFH Florida LLC, and General Counsel. In these excerpts, “the defendant” means that attorney. Gregory Keough was not a defendant in that case; his own case is No. 23-cr-80154.

Document Plea Agreement
Case the attorney’s separate case, No. 22-cr-80157 (S.D. Fla.)
Filed 11 October 2022, docket entry 11
Charge Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count

“The defendant [the attorney in case 22-cr-80157] agrees to plead guilty to the one-count Information, which charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, all in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.”

“The Court may impose a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of up to twenty (20) years, followed by a term of supervised release of three (3) years.”

“The defendant [the attorney in case 22-cr-80157] agrees that he will make restitution in the amount of one million two hundred sixty-two thousand and six hundred dollars ($1,262,600.00).”

“That the defendant [the attorney in case 22-cr-80157] should receive a 16-level upward adjustment as the loss was more than $1,500,000 but not greater than $3,500,000.”

“The property subject to forfeiture includes, but is not limited to: a forfeiture money judgment in the sum of approximately $869,682.83 in U.S. currency, which sum represents the value of any property that constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the defendant’s [the attorney’s] commission of the offense(s).”

Source: the attorney’s separate case, No. 22-cr-80157 (S.D. Fla.), docket entry 11. Quotations are from the filed document. Square brackets identify the attorney and are not in the original.