A cryptocurrency expert was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions.
NEW YORK -- A cryptocurrency expert was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in U.S. federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions.
The U.S. and the U.N. Security Council have imposed increasingly tight sanctions on North Korea in recent years to try to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The U.S. government amended sanctions against North Korea in 2018 to prohibit "a U.S. person, wherever located" from exporting technology to North Korea.
Defense attorney Brian Klein described Griffith as a "brilliant Caltech-trained scientist who developed a curiosity bordering on obsession" with North Korea. "He viewed himself -- albeit arrogantly and naively -- as acting in the interest of peace," Klein said. "He loves his country and never set out to do any harm."
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