Jonathan Spalletta
Last changed 2026-10-10 · Score recalculated — Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 2 → 26. Problems weighed by who is responsible: the subject's own conduct −130, problems around the subject, caused by others −4.8; legitimacy credit long-running +10; no established finding that it defrauded anyone, so it stays out of the red band. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| The subject's own conduct | -130 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -4.8 |
| Long-running | +10 |
| Sum | -60 |
- No established finding that it defrauded anyone, so it stays out of the red band (26 or above).
Score: 26/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →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.
Connected Entities
10 entities · 60 linked investigations- Ethereum→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
- Uranium Finance→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
- Uranium Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(75%)
- Monero→mentioned with→Binance(70%)
- Uranium Finance→mentioned with→Binance(70%)
- Monero→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
- Monero→mentioned with→ZachXBT(65%)
- Jonathan Spalletta→mentioned with→Polkadot(60%)
- Jonathan Spalletta→mentioned with→Pokemon(70%)
- Jonathan Spalletta→mentioned with→Monero(60%)
- + 15 more
Connected Through
9 shared actors · 579 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- □Ethereumorganization
- □ZachXBTorganization
- ♦Bitcointoken
- □Binanceorganization
1 submission awaiting moderator review.
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 Release8 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.
BleepingComputer28 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 Release28 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.wikiDecember 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 Exploit24 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 hack30 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 ReleaseSeptember 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 dateDecision Log
- slot 455359945 · hash 8ypz6bY4xvFrnvJEJRQa4fVfT2dTkoYA9shPGUChf1gz
- slot 423844503 · hash 2Ei4a3SBL4PZfvH3pxxsc7bwvuvZUjSMe9eQ5d5dSW9P
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (2 decisions). 16 of 18 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/2/2026, 4:08:23 PM
last updated: 10/10/2026, 6:41:08 PM
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