US prosecutors and the SEC have charged Xue Lee (aka Sam Lee) and Brenda Chunga (aka Bitcoin Beautee) for their involvement in a fraudulent crypto asset pyramid scheme called HyperVerse that raised more than $1.7 billion from investors worldwide.
They said Lee and Chunga started promoting HyperFund (as it was called
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