This article will show you two sets of men. The first set committed specific acts at their cryptocurrency companies, faced prosecution, were convicted, and are serving years in federal prison right now. The second set is Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who committed acts that the publicly available evidence already documents at their own cryptocurrency venture. We will lay the conduct of both sets side by side, act for act, and the conduct will match. Then we will ask you to find the difference between the men in prison and the two men who are not, and we will give you the name and the phone number of the offices that can answer that question for you.

Braden Karony ran a cryptocurrency called SafeMoon. He told the people who bought SafeMoon tokens that the pool of money backing the token was locked, so that company insiders could not withdraw it. The pool was not locked, and insiders withdrew the money. In April 2026 a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Karony to one hundred months in prison. One hundred months is eight years and four months, and the sentence was punishment for telling buyers a false statement about how the token worked.

Alex Mashinsky ran a company called Celsius that told customers it was a crypto bank where ordinary people could deposit their savings and earn interest. Mashinsky told customers to keep their deposits in Celsius while he sold his own holdings, and he told customers the company was financially sound while its balance sheet held a $1.2 billion hole. When Celsius froze withdrawals in 2022, about 1.7 million customers were locked out of roughly $4.7 billion in assets. A federal judge sentenced Mashinsky to twelve years in prison.

and on the other hand.

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump founded a cryptocurrency venture called World Liberty Financial. In the sixteen months after World Liberty launched its token in late 2024, the venture generated at least $1.2 billion in cash for the Trump family, which is more cash than Donald Trump’s real estate business produced in the eight years from 2010 to 2017. World Liberty’s governing documents direct seventy-five percent of token sale revenue to a Trump family entity. This article sets out how World Liberty took in money, what World Liberty told the people who bought its token, and how that conduct matches the conduct that sent Karony and Mashinsky to prison. No prosecutor has filed a case.