A California attorney was charged Tuesday in Manhattan federal court with helping to launder $20 million from an alleged cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme through an account meant to hold his clients’ funds.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Scott Hughes, a Newport Beach, California-based lawyer, with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with the alleged international fraud ring, centered on the supposed cryptocurrency mining and trading firm AirBit Club.

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