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Jonathan Spalletta

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Summary

Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, was charged on March 30, 2026 by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with two hacks of the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance in April 2021 that allegedly yielded approximately $54.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency. He is alleged to have laundered proceeds through Tornado Cash and converted them into rare collectibles including Magic: The Gathering cards, first-edition Pokemon sets, and antiquities. He surrendered to authorities on March 30, 2026, entered a not-guilty plea, and is awaiting trial scheduled for September 2026 before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.

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    Timeline(8 events)

    8 April 2021

    Alleged first hack of Uranium Finance: approximately $1.4 million drained from a rewards liquidity pool via AmountWithBonus variable manipulation.

    DOJ SDNY Press Release

    8 April 2021

    Alleged extortion: Spalletta allegedly contacted Uranium Finance and extracted approximately $386,000 as a fraudulent 'bug bounty' in exchange for returning the remainder of the first theft.

    BleepingComputer

    28 April 2021

    Alleged second hack of Uranium Finance: approximately $53.3 million drained across 26 liquidity pools via a single-character swap-contract coding error; exchange forced to shut down permanently.

    DOJ SDNY Press Release

    28 April 2021

    Alleged Telegram 'War Room' deception: Spalletta and co-conspirators allegedly posed as investigators and promoted a false white-hat narrative, returning approximately $2 million to a wallet they controlled but presented as the official developer wallet.

    Decrypt / IQ.wiki

    December 2023

    On-chain investigator ZachXBT published a report linking approximately 11,200 ETH withdrawn from Tornado Cash to the Uranium Finance attacker, documenting the conversion into rare physical collectibles via U.S. brokers.

    Decrypt: Feds Recover $31 Million in Crypto From 2021 Uranium Finance Exploit

    24 February 2025

    Federal agents executed a search warrant at Spalletta's Rockville, Maryland residence, seizing approximately $31 million in cryptocurrency and multiple high-value physical collectibles including the Black Lotus MTG card, sealed Alpha Booster packs, first-edition Pokemon sets, a Julius Caesar Eid Mar coin, and Wright Brothers airplane fabric.

    BleepingComputer: US recovers $31 million stolen in 2021 Uranium Finance hack

    30 March 2026

    Indictment unsealed by SDNY; Jonathan Spalletta surrendered to authorities and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang. Charged with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering.

    DOJ SDNY Press Release

    September 2026

    Trial scheduled before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, SDNY. Exact September 2026 date pending court scheduling.

    MLex: Alleged Uranium Finance hacker gets September US trial date
    Provenance & Audit Trail
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    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 16 of 18 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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    generated: 6/2/2026, 4:08:23 PM

    last updated: 7/27/2026, 1:22:46 PM

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