{
  "id": 13210519,
  "title": "'Crypto King' investor recounts the moment he learned $311M investment fund didn’t exist",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/crypto-king-investor-recounts-the-moment-he-learned-311m-investment",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T20:03:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crypto-king-ponzi-scheme-mitchell-learning-9.7376238"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An investor and friend of Aiden Pleterski showed up at the lakefront mansion of the self-described \"Crypto King\" in June 2022 to \"get proof in person\" of how much money was in Pleterski’s investment account. Pleterski has pleaded not guilty to fraud over $5,000 and money laundering.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}