{"id":31096,"date":"2020-11-02T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31096"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:01:10","slug":"lawyer-for-onecoin-scammer-disbarred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/lawyer-for-onecoin-scammer-disbarred\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer for OneCoin scammer disbarred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-judge panel has disbarred Mark Scott, the lawyer tied to the scandal-plagued OneCoin pyramid. Cointelegraph reports.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The decision bars him from acting as a lawyer or providing legal advice before any court or other government body in New York State. If Scott wins his appeal, he may petition to lift the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was previously found guilty of laundering $400 million through a network of fraudulent investment funds and international offshore zones. Scott personally earned $50 million from these schemes. He faces up to 50 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid was founded in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova together with Sebastian Greenwood. For more on the scam that made history, read ForkLog&#8217;s piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qKTi66Xeos\">\n<p>The Scam of the Decade: How a Doctor of Legal Sciences Organized the OneCoin Pyramid and Vanished with Billions of Euros<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c\u0421\u043a\u0430\u043c \u0434\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044f: \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0434\u043e\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440 \u044e\u0440\u0438\u0434\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u043a \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438\u0434\u0443 OneCoin \u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0441 \u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0435\u0432\u0440\u043e\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/skam-desyatiletiya-kak-doktor-yuridicheskih-nauk-organizovala-piramidu-onecoin-i-propala-bez-vesti-s-milliardami-evro\/embed#?secret=s1XOYq9c5N#?secret=qKTi66Xeos\" data-secret=\"qKTi66Xeos\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story of the cryptocurrency pyramid will form the basis of a new film &#8220;Fake!&#8221; (&#8220;\u0424\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0438\u0432\u043a\u0430!&#8221;). The lead role in it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/titanic-star-to-play-lead-role-in-film-about-onecoin-crypto-pyramid\">will be played by<\/a> Oscar-winning Kate Winslet. She will also serve as a producer of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-judge panel disbarred Mark Scott, the lawyer linked to the scandal-plagued OneCoin pyramid. Cointelegraph reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1088,1163],"class_list":["post-31096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-onecoin","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31098,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions\/31098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}