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THE SECRET LIFE OF JIMMY ZHONG, WHO STOLE – AND LOST – MORE THAN $3 BILLION

Published Tue, Oct 17 20237:59 AM EDTUpdated Tue, Oct 17 20235:02 PM EDT
Eamon Javers@EamonJavers
Paige Tortorelli@tortorellipaige
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Key Points
 * In 2012, someone stole 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road, an illegal dark web
   marketplace. Over time, the value of the stolen bitcoin skyrocketed to more
   than $3 billion dollars and for years it remained one of the biggest
   mysteries in the world of cryptocurrency.
 * Almost a decade after the 2012 hack, the thief made a critical mistake that
   allowed the IRS-CI to crack the case.
 * CNBC obtained never-before-seen footage that shows how investigators linked
   the thief to the crypto heist.

Athens, Georgia, is home to the University of Georgia, and the police there are
used to college town-type crimes: break-ins, bar fights and assorted rowdiness.
That kind of thing.

But the 911 call that came in on the night of March 13, 2019, was unlike
anything the Athens-Clarke County Police Department had ever encountered.



On the phone was 28-year-old Jimmy Zhong, a local party boy and Georgia alum who
frequented Athens’ drinking establishments. He wasn’t like the other town
rowdies – Zhong was also a computer expert who had an unusually robust digital
home surveillance system.

Now, he was calling to report a crime: hundreds of thousands of dollars in
crypto currency that he said had been stolen from his home. Thinking of all that
lost money, Zhong was distressed.

In March 2019, someone broke into Zhong’s home, shattering the window.
Source: Athens-Clarke County Police

“I’m having a panic attack,” Zhong told the dispatcher, according to a recording
obtained by CNBC.

Zhong turned down the dispatcher’s offer of an ambulance, and began trying to
explain the situation. “I’m an investor in bitcoin, which is like an online
thing,” he said.

What happened next would bring an end to a nearly decade long manhunt and solve
one of the biggest crimes of the crypto era. And it also would lead to the
largest seizure of cryptocurrency from an individual in the history of the
Department of Justice.



Zhong’s emergency call that winter evening sent investigators down a long
digital trail that led back to the earliest days of bitcoin and revealed a dark
truth about the universe of hackers and coders responsible for the creation of
cryptocurrencies. It’s a world where heroes and villains traded places and could
even be the same people.

None of it would go at all the way Zhong wanted.

The 911 call didn’t produce a suspect in the theft from Zhong’s house. Athens
police were dealing with one of their first crypto cases and unfamiliar with the
shadowy underworld, and they failed to make progress in the case.

So Zhong turned to local private investigator Robin Martinelli, who owns and
operates Martinelli Investigations in nearby Loganville, Georgia.

Robin Martinelli, Martinelli Investigations owner and private investigator.
CNBC

A former sheriff’s deputy turned PI, Martinelli was far from an expert in
crypto. She specialized in process serving, cheating spouses and custody
investigations, the type of probes that once got her firm featured on an episode
of “The Montel Williams Show.”

Martinelli had recently undergone surgery to amputate one leg, leaving her to
conduct her surveillance operations with the help of a prosthetic.

Still, she was motivated to solve Zhong’s case.

“When you wake up and don’t put two feet on the ground, but you still have to
run a company, you got to get out there and kick ass,” Martinelli told CNBC in
an interview for the new documentary, “Crypto 911: Exposing a Bitcoin
Billionaire.”

She began by examining Zhong’s robust surveillance video archive of his home. In
looking at footage from the night of the crime, Martinelli spotted a slender
male figure.

Surveillance footage CNBC obtained captures someone breaking into Zhong’s home
in March 2019.
Source: Athens-Clarke County Police  

“We could tell that they had like a hood on – a gray hood – but then they had
almost like a black ski mask,” Martinelli said.

The suspect appeared to know his way around Zhong’s house, which led Martinelli
to believe that he was a friend or at least someone who had heard Zhong boast
about his bitcoin stash. From the video, Martinelli was able to determine the
suspect’s height and even the size of his hands.

She said she began her investigation by putting Zhong’s friends under
surveillance, following them to their homes and downtown bars on Broad Street
and College Avenue. She put trackers on cars and scoured social media and
conducted background checks.

As she watched Zhong’s bar friends come and go, Martinelli formed a low opinion
of the group. She described them as “very, very casual, plastic, not really
caring, maybe using Jimmy a little bit.”

Martinelli said Zhong appeared resistant to her theories, especially when they
began to focus on his circle of friends. Martinelli eventually settled on one
suspect in particular who she believed had stolen 150 bitcoins from Jimmy. At
the time, that amount of the digital currency was worth nearly $600,000.

Zhong didn’t want to hear it, she said.

“He would get upset when I would kind of mention somebody would had to have
known where this cash was,” Martinelli said. And she understood why Zhong was so
hurt by the idea that someone close to him could have betrayed him.

“Jimmy wanted to be loved,” she said. “Jimmy wanted friends.”

Even as Martinelli soured on the friend group, she was warming up to her client,
who she perceived as an odd man in search of friends.

“Jimmy was a good guy,” she said. 

A lot of people around Athens felt similarly about him.

In the years before the theft, Zhong was known for throwing a lot of money
around town. He was the kind of guy who would buy a round of expensive shots for
the whole bar, hundreds of dollars vanishing in seconds down eager throats.

Zhong pictured with two women in front of a limousine.
Source: Zhong’s social media profile

Although he lived in a modest off-campus bungalow, near student housing and the
downtown college bar scene, he stayed at fancy hotels, including the Ritz
Carlton, the Plaza and the Waldorf Astoria, according to court documents CNBC
reviewed. He shopped at high-end stores such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Jimmy
Choo. He drove fancy cars, including a Tesla. He bought a second home, a lake
house with a dock in Gainesville, Georgia, a short drive from Athens. He stocked
it with jet skis, boats, a stripper pole, and lots and lots of liquor.

Zhong pictured with two women on a yacht.
Source: Zhong’s social media profile

His parties were epic.

Zhong was living his best life with no visible source of income. As far as
anyone knew, he didn’t really have a job. He told his friends that he’d gotten
into bitcoin early, mining thousands of coins in the earliest days of the
technology. Zhong told people he dabbled in crypto as far back as 2009, the year
bitcoin was invented by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto and a small crew of
developers tied online to the anonymous crypto creator.

Whatever Zhong was doing, he was making mountains of cash. And he was willing to
splurge.

In 2018, when his beloved Georgia Bulldogs football team made the Rose Bowl,
Zhong rounded up a small group of friends for a pilgrimage to Los Angeles. 

Zhong pictured with a group of friends at the 2018 Rose Bowl game.
Source: Zhong’s social media profile

“It really felt like with Jimmy, there were no limits,” Stefana Masic, a Georgia
alum and one of the friends on the trip, told CNBC. 

Stefana Masic, Zhong’s friend.
CNBC

Masic said not only did Zhong pay for all the tickets, but he also rented a
private jet for the cross-country flight. And he gave each friend up to $10,000
for a Beverly Hills shopping spree on Rodeo Drive. They spent it on outfits,
accessories and baubles to wear in the city.

“I had never flown private before, and I never stayed in such a nice Airbnb. It
was cool because, you know, I got to experience a lot of things that I normally
wouldn’t.”

As he was cheering on his team in LA, Zhong couldn’t have known that a small
group of agents from the IRS Criminal Investigation unit, led by officials in
the same city, were painstakingly trying to solve a crime that dated back
years. 

What had captured the investigators’ attention was a 2012 hack in which someone
had stolen 50,000 bitcoins from a site on the dark web called Silk Road,
according to court documents CNBC reviewed. That site was one of the earliest
crypto marketplaces, where anonymous buyers and sellers exchanged all manner of
illicit material. It was full of drugs, guns, pornography and other stuff people
wanted to keep secret.

Over the years, the value of the bitcoin stolen by the Silk Road hacker had
soared to more than $3 billion, according to court documents. Investigators
could track the location of the currency on the blockchain, which is a public
ledger of all transactions. But they couldn’t see the identity of the new owner
of the funds. So they watched and waited for years as the hacker transferred
funds from account to account, peeled some away, and pushed some of it through
crypto “mixers” designed to obscure the source of the money.

Finally, Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company that was tracing the
digital wallets containing the stolen Silk Road assets, saw the hacker made a
tiny mistake. He transferred around $800 worth to a crypto exchange that
followed established banking rules, including so-called know your customer
processes, requiring real names and addresses of account holders.

The account was registered in Zhong’s name. The transaction took place in
September 2019, six months after Zhong’s 911 call to the local police.

That alone wasn’t enough to prove Zhong was the hacker. They had to be sure.

So the IRS called the Athens-Clarke County Police Department and asked for some
help, according to sources at both agencies. At the time, the police
investigation into Zhong’s own crime report had been languishing.

“I got a call from an IRS agent,” Lt. Jody Thompson, who leads the local
property and financial crimes unit, told CNBC.  “And he said, ‘can I come by and
speak to you about Jimmy?’ And I was like, sure, I remember this case.”

Lt. Jody Thompson, Athens-Clarke County Police.
CNBC

After that, Thompson joined forces with IRS-CI special agent Trevor McAleenan
and Shaun MaGruder, CEO of a cyber intelligence company called BlockTrace.
MaGruder’s company works with the IRS as an embedded contractor and was hired
for its experience untangling complicated blockchain transactions. 

Shaun MaGruder, BlockTrace CEO.
CNBC

Together, the three investigators said they devised a plan. They would approach
Zhong using a ruse, telling him they were investigating the crime that he’d
called about, the one in which a thief had stolen hundreds of thousands of
dollars of his bitcoin.

In reality, they were investigating Zhong for a crime they believed he had
committed. A crime whose proceeds were now worth billions of dollars. 

When the three men knocked on the door of his lake home in Gainesville, Zhong
opened it enthusiastically, according to body camera footage CNBC exclusively
obtained. He believed the police officer and the two specialists were there to
help solve his crypto cold case.

“If you guys solve this for me, I will invite you out for a party,” Zhong told
the trio on the body camera footage.

The video shows the officers pouring on the praise. They called his front door
“beautiful.” They called his speakers “crazy,” and they complimented his dog,
Chad. They asked for a tour of the house. Body camera footage shows the men
tapping on stone floors, looking in closets and checking out wood paneling.
Zhong didn’t know it, but they were scouring for secret compartments. 

Zhong brought investigators to his basement, equipped with a full bar and a
stripper pole.

“Is this your workout?” McAleenan asked Zhong.

“Nope, that’s for girls,” Zhong replied.

Body camera footage CNBC obtained shows investigators in Zhong’s basement, which
contains a full bar and a stripper pole.
Source: Athens-Clarke County Police

The body camera footage also shows they got a good look at Zhong’s security
system, asking him to explain each of its features and capabilities. Zhong is
also captured showing them a metal case he said he once used to store $1 million
in cash so he could impress a woman.

“Did it work?” asked Lt. Thompson.

“Nope,” Zhong said.

“It never does,” Thompson replied.

The law enforcement officers learned that Zhong had a flamethrower on the
premises. And they saw his AR-15 rifle hanging on the wall.

MaGruder said Zhong’s level of sophistication was apparent.

“He was navigating that keyboard like I’ve never seen someone navigate a
keyboard,” MaGruder said. “He didn’t have to use a mouse because he knew all the
hotkeys.”

Playing on the ruse, the officers asked Zhong to open his laptop and explain how
he came to have the bitcoin in the first place. Zhong sat on the couch next to
the investigators and entered his password, asking them to turn away as he
typed.

When he opened the laptop, law enforcement could see his bitcoin wallet.

“Lo and behold, he had $60 or $70 million worth of bitcoins right there next to
us,” MaGruder told CNBC in an interview. 

Body camera footage CNBC obtained captures Zhong showing investigators millions
of dollars of bitcoin on his laptop.
Source: Athens-Clarke County Police

The evidence was enough to convince the investigators they were on the right
track. As he exited Zhong’s lake house, MaGruder told CNBC he thought to
himself, “This is incredible. I think we found our guy.”

The first visit allowed the investigators to obtain a federal search warrant for
Zhong’s home, McAleenan said. McAleenan, MaGruder, and Thompson returned with an
enormous team of officers on Nov. 9, 2021.

Before the officers raided the house, McAleenan had to explain to Zhong that he
wasn’t really trying to help him. He was trying to convict him.

“I said, Jimmy, you know me as ‘Trevor.’ I’m actually Trevor McAleenan. I’m a
special agent with IRS Criminal Investigation, and we’re here to execute a
federal-approved warrant on your house,” McAleenan said.

Trevor McAleenan, IRS-CI Special Agent.
CNBC

“And he kind of had this look like, ‘Am I being punked?’” McAleenan added.

At that moment, another officer slid a device known as a “jiggler” into Zhong’s
laptop, causing the cursor to continually move and giving law enforcement access
to the password-protected contents of the computer, McAleenan said.

Officers flooded into the home, cracking open every crevice in search of
evidence. McAleenan said in an upstairs closet, they found a popcorn tin with a
computer hidden inside that held millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards

The popcorn tin where investigators found a single board computer hidden inside
that held millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.
Source: IRS Criminal Investigations
The single board computer investigators found inside the popcorn tin.
Source: IRS Criminal Investigations

Using sniffer dogs trained to detect electronics, McAleenan said they found a
safe buried in concrete under some basement floor tile. Court documents said the
safe contained precious metals, stacks of cash and physical bitcoins minted in
the early years of crypto. They also found a wallet with bitcoin from the
original hack of Silk Road in 2012.

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards

Physical bitcoin and cash investigators found during the search warrant.
Source: IRS Criminal Investigations

Zhong was busted.

“Really late at night we were able to say we were successful,” McAleenan said.
“We found the evidence that we were looking for. And the house lit up. I mean,
every agent on the site cheered.”

As they sorted through the evidence, agents discovered something else about the
unusual Mr. Zhong. He was, in crypto slang, an “original gangster,” or OG.

Investigators discovered that as far back as 2009, the year bitcoin was
invented, Zhong was among a small group of early coders who worked to develop
and perfect the technology. He was a smaller contributor than some of the other
OG players who have since become famous in the bitcoin community, McAleenan
said. But investigators concluded that he made contributions to the original
bitcoin code and offered ideas to the early developers on key topics like how to
reduce blockchain size.

In other words, a hacker who had been involved in the development of bitcoin
itself went on to become one of the biggest bitcoin thieves of all time.

“He is one of the, as we dubbed it, the original gangsters, OGs, as far as
bitcoin core software developers,” McAleenan said. “He had been in this space
for quite a while.”

The irony of Zhong’s role in the history of bitcoin is emblematic of the culture
that built the cryptocurrency in the first place, said Nathaniel Popper, author
of “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires
Trying to Reinvent Money.”

Nathaniel Popper, author of “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the
Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.”
CNBC

“Everybody came to this for their own reason,” Popper told CNBC. “And it was, as
a result of that, a very sort of eclectic and eccentric group of people.”

“Bitcoin was always shot through with irony,” Popper said. “Yes, there was
something ironic about a bitcoin proponent stealing bitcoin from another bitcoin
proponent. But I think that was also in some ways a part of what defined
bitcoin.” 

Zhong was charged with wire fraud. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to
one year and a day in federal prison. Zhong, now 33 years old, began his
sentence at the federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 14, 2023.

In the end, Zhong didn’t get to keep the stolen bitcoin. The U.S. government
seized those assets. Officials opened a process that allowed victims of the hack
to apply to get their bitcoin back, according to a forfeiture document CNBC
reviewed.

Nobody came forward to claim the loot. That’s not surprising, given that users
of Silk Road in 2012 were largely drug dealers and their customers. The federal
government simply sold off the stolen bitcoin and will keep the proceeds. Some
of the revenue generated will likely be shared with the Athens-Clarke County
Police Department, in recognition of the local officers’ help in the case,
according to the IRS-CI.

As he left the courthouse after his sentencing on April 14, CNBC attempted to
question Zhong about his role in the crime. Zhong covered his head with his coat
and left without saying a word. 

In his statement to the judge before sentencing, Zhong said having billions in
stolen bitcoin made him feel important. 

Zhong with his attorneys, Michael Bachner and John Garland, at sentencing.
Source: IRS Criminal Investigations

Zhong’s attorney, Michael Bachner, says the theft never actually damaged the
U.S. government.

Michael Bachner, Zhong’s attorney.
CNBC

“The government has certainly not been hurt by Jimmy’s conduct whatsoever,”
Bachner told CNBC. “If Jimmy had not stolen the coins and the government had in
fact seized them from [Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht] they would have sold
them two years later in 2014 as they did with other coins.”

At that point, the government “would have gotten $320 a coin or made somewhere
about $14 million,” Bachner said. “Now, as a result of Jimmy having them, the
government has gotten a $3 billion profit.”

Zhong asked for no jail time because he was concerned about the fate of Chad,
his 13-year-old dog. Zhong has had a difficult life. On the autism spectrum,
Bachner said he was severely bullied at school. And he found solace over the
years in an online community where he could deploy his computing skills. 

Chad, Zhong’s elderly dog.
Source: Zhong’s social media profile

As for the original crime against Jimmy Zhong — the bitcoin theft in Athens that
led him to the 911 call in March 2019 — that crime has never been solved. The
perpetrator remains at large.

Zhong’s dog, Chad, is staying with a friend.








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Types of Cookies

The Services use the following types of first and third-party Cookies for these
purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are required for Service
functionality, including for system administration, security and fraud
prevention, and to enable any purchasing capabilities. You can set your browser
to block these Cookies, but some parts of the site may not function properly.

Information Storage and Access: These Cookies allow us and our partners to store
and access information on the device, such as device identifiers.

Measurement and Analytics: These Cookies collect data regarding your usage of
and performance of the Services, apply market research to generate audiences,
and measure the delivery and effectiveness of content and advertising. We and
our third-party vendors use these Cookies to perform analytics, so we can
improve the content and user experience, develop new products and services, and
for statistical purposes. They are also used to recognize you and provide
further insights across platforms and devices for the above purposes.

Personalization Cookies: These Cookies enable us to provide certain features,
such as determining if you are a first-time visitor, capping message frequency,
remembering choices you have made (e.g., your language preferences, time zone),
and assist you with logging in after registration (including across platforms
and devices). These Cookies also allow your device to receive and send
information, so you can see and interact with ads and content.

Content Selection and Delivery Cookies: Data collected under this category can
also be used to select and deliver personalized content, such as news articles
and videos.

Ad Selection and Delivery Cookies: These Cookies are used to collect data about
your browsing habits, your use of the Services, your preferences, and your
interaction with advertisements across platforms and devices for the purpose of
delivering interest-based advertising content on the Services and on third-party
sites. Third-party sites and services also use interest-based Advertising
Cookies to deliver content, including advertisements relevant to your interests
on the Services and third-party services. If you reject these Cookies, you may
see contextual advertising that may be less relevant to you.

Social Media Cookies: These Cookies are set by social media platforms on the
Services to enable you to share content with your friends and networks. Social
media platforms have the ability to track your online activity outside of the
Services. This may impact the content and messages you see on other services you
visit.

We and third parties may associate Measurement And Analytics Cookies,
Personalization Cookies, Content Selection, Delivery Cookies, and Reporting, Ad
Selection, Delivery and Reporting Cookies, and Social Media Cookies with other
information we have about you.

COOKIE MANAGEMENT

Depending on where you live, you may be able to adjust your Cookie preferences
at any time via the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of relevant websites.
You can also use the methods described below to manage Cookies. You must take
such steps on each browser or device that you use. If you replace, change or
upgrade your browser or device, or delete your cookies, you may need to use
these opt-out tools again. As some Cookie-management solutions also rely on
Cookies, please adjust your browser Cookie settings carefully, following the
relevant instructions below.

Browser Controls: You may be able to disable and manage some Cookies through
your browser settings. If you use multiple browsers on the same device, you will
need to manage your settings for each browser. Please click on any of the below
browser links for instructions:

Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Mozila Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer

If the browser you use is not listed above, please refer to your browser’s help
menu for information on how to manage Cookies. Please be aware that disabling
cookies will not disable other analytics tools we may use to collect information
about you or your use of our Services.

Analytics Provider Opt-Outs: To disable analytics Cookies you can use the
browser controls discussed above or, for some of our providers, you can use
their individual opt-out mechanisms:

Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Opt-Out
Omniture’s Privacy Policy and Omniture’s Opt-Out
Mixpanel’s Privacy Policy and Mixpanel’s Opt-Out

The above are examples of our analytics providers and this is not an exhaustive
list. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of any other providers’
opt-out mechanisms.

Flash Local Storage: These cookies are also known as local shared objects and
may be used to store your preferences or display content by us, advertisers and
other third-parties. Flash cookies need to be deleted in the storage section of
your Flash Player Settings Manager.

Interest-Based Advertising: Most third-party advertisers offer a way to opt out
of their interest-based advertising. For more information or to opt out of
receiving interest-based advertising from participating third-party advertisers,
depending on your country of residence, please visit:

Digital Advertising Alliance in the US
Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
Australian Digital Advertising Alliance

You can also opt out of some of the advertising providers we use by visiting
their opt-out pages:

Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Opt-Out Page
Facebook Privacy Policy and Facebook’s Opt-Out Page
Twitter Privacy Policy and Twitter’s Opt-Out Page
Liveramp’s Privacy Policy and Liveramp Opt-Out Page

These are examples of our advertising providers and this is not an exhaustive
list. In addition, we are not responsible for the effectiveness of any of these
providers’ opt-out mechanisms.

After you opt out, you will still see advertisements, but they may not be as
relevant to you.

Mobile Settings: You may manage the collection of information for interest-based
advertising purposes in mobile apps via the device’s settings, including
managing the collection of location data. To opt out of mobile ad tracking from
Nielsen or other third parties, you can do so by selecting the “Limit Ad
Tracking” (for iOS devices) or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” (for Android
devices) options in your device settings.

Connected Devices: For connected devices, such as smart TVs or streaming
devices, you should review the device’s settings and select the option that
allows you to disable automatic content recognition or ad tracking. Typically,
to opt out, such devices require you to select options like “limit ad tracking”
or to disable options such as “interest-based advertising,” “interactive TV,” or
“smart interactivity”. These settings vary by device type.

Cross-Device Tracking: If you would like to opt out of our browser-based
cross-device tracking for advertising purposes, you may do so by using the
various methods described above. You must opt out separately on each device and
each browser that you use. For more information about cross-device matching,
please visit the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising
Alliance. If you opt out of cross-device tracking for advertising purposes, we
may still conduct cross-device tracking for other purposes, such as analytics.

Consequences of Deactivation of Cookies: If you disable or remove Cookies, some
parts of the Services may not function properly. Information may still be
collected and used for other purposes, such as research, online services
analytics or internal operations, and to remember your opt-out preferences.



CONTACT US

For inquiries about this Cookies Notice, please contact us at Privacy@nbcuni.com
or Chief Privacy Officer, NBCUniversal Legal Department, 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, NY 10112, US.

For inquiries from users who reside in the European Economic Area, the United
Kingdom or Switzerland, please contact us at Privacy@nbcuni.com or Privacy,
Legal Department, Central Saint Giles, St Giles High Street, London, WC2H 8NU,
UK

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

This Notice may be revised occasionally and in accordance with legal
requirements. Please revisit this Cookie Notice regularly to stay informed about
our and our analytic and advertising partners’ use of Cookies.

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