Brooklyn DA shuts 241 websites linked to crypto fraud network

A three-year probe into fraud targeting Russian-speaking investors ended with 112 servers seized across Eastern Europe and the US The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has knocked a global crypto scam operation offline. The network allegedly cost Americans tens of millions of dollars. On October 14, 2026, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that his office had disrupted 241 fraudulent domains and 112 cloud servers tied to a multinational crypto investment fraud. A county prosecutor going after infrastructure spread across two continents is not the usual job description. The enforcement actions happened the week before Gonzalez went public.

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