What started out as $9,000 in ETH when they oldest invested the drug proceeds blossomed into about $53 million, authorities said, plus a wide variety of other tokens Castelluzzo obtained, including solana (SOL), cardano (ADA) and bitcoin. Because it was tied to the original drug trafficking, the U.S. seized it as a forfeiture.
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