{"id":4548,"date":"2025-03-07T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/florida-law-firm-accused-of-pocketing-430k-in-bitcoin-escrow-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:18:35","slug":"florida-law-firm-accused-of-pocketing-430k-in-bitcoin-escrow-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/florida-law-firm-accused-of-pocketing-430k-in-bitcoin-escrow-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Law Firm Accused of Pocketing $430K in Bitcoin Escrow Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A Florida attorney and his law firm are facing a complaint in Miami state court over their failure to return $430,000 without \u201clegal right or justification\u201d to a quantitative investment management firm in connection with an agreement to act as an escrow agent for a digital currency exchange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The case dates to Oct. 2, 2024, when the plaintiff, Winton Capital LLC, and one of the defendants,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pradolegalservices.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <u>Prado Law Offices<\/u><\/a>, acting through co-defendant Edwin Prado, allegedly entered into the escrow agreement. Prado agreed to act as the escrow agent to purchase Bitcoin from Winton. In doing so, Winton was required to deposit funds into Prado Law\u2019s trust account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida attorney and his law firm are facing a complaint in Miami state court over their failure to return $430,000 without \u201clegal right or justification\u201d to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4957,334,3343,4958,184,703,153,4956,583],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-430k","tag-accused","tag-bitcoin","tag-escrow","tag-firm","tag-florida","tag-law","tag-pocketing","tag-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}