{"id":21,"date":"2026-03-14T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/?p=21"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:24:26","slug":"the-pig-butchering-forfeiture-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-pig-butchering-forfeiture-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Pig Butchering&#8221; Forfeiture (March 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In one of the most recent and significant actions, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action to recover approximately <strong>$3.44 million in USDT (Tether)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Scam:<\/strong> Scammers used &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; tactics, building trust with victims in Utah, South Carolina, and Massachusetts before convincing them to invest in a fake platform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Recovery:<\/strong> Federal investigators traced the funds as they were moved from Ethereum to USDT and then to &#8220;unhosted&#8221; wallets. Because the government moved quickly to identify the associated accounts, they were able to initiate the legal process to seize and return the funds to the victims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most recent and significant actions, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action to recover approximately $3.44 million in USDT (Tether).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.justice.lat\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}