Posted on 11/07/2023 4:17:55 PM PST by Libloather
By day, Brian Krewson is a technical expert at computing giant Oracle. But by night he’s Mr. Poto, a fire-breathing, stilt-walking party entertainer, happy to perform at birthdays, weddings and corporate picnics. A Facebook photo from Halloween 2020 shows Krewson dressed in full methlab attire as a remarkably convincing Walter White, the infamous drug trafficker played by Brian Cranston in Breaking Bad.
According to a Justice Department DOC, Krewson's resemblance to that character extends beyond appearance. The agency alleges that Krewson helped store and launder $54 million worth of cryptocurrency for two friends, Christopher Castelluzzo and Luke Atwell, who were convicted of cocaine trafficking in 2018. But Castelluzzo has claimed the crypto was acquired legitimately and Krewson has not been charged with any federal crime. His attorney has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Before they were prosecuted and sentenced to 21 and 19 years, respectively, Atwell and Castelluzzo had run a profitable narcotics trafficking business, selling between $2.5 million and $3 million of cocaine per month. Investigators said Atwell attempted to hide millions of dollars-worth of crypto he’d acquired from dark web drug sales, mostly via the Blue Sky market, claiming some of those proceeds were used to buy 30,000 ether, worth just $9,000 at the time of its purchase but now worth above $54 million. Krewson was promised a cut for hiding the crypto from law enforcement, the Justice Department said.
Much of the evidence that Krewson was controlling the funds came from calls that Atwell and Castelluzzo made from prison to the Oracle employee. In one call detailed by prosecutors, Castelluzzo and Krewson discussed moving the ether to Malta or the Bahamas, though they didn’t settle on a location.
In a mid-2021 call between Krewson and Atwell, who remain Facebook friends today...
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Don’t take calls from prison.
All calls from prison are recorded. They may or may not be monitored, depending. They are stored indefinitely.
Give 10% to hombre grande, and you’re free and clear.
They should have given HumpHer a “piece of the action”...
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