Jonathan Spalletta
Summary
Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, Maryland, was charged on March 30, 2026 by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with two hacks of the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance in April 2021 that allegedly yielded approximately $54.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency. He is alleged to have laundered proceeds through Tornado Cash and converted them into rare collectibles including Magic: The Gathering cards, first-edition Pokemon sets, and antiquities. He surrendered to authorities on March 30, 2026, entered a not-guilty plea, and is awaiting trial scheduled for September 2026 before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
Connected Entities
1 entities · 10 linked investigationsTimeline(8 events)
2021-04-08
Alleged first hack of Uranium Finance: approximately $1.4 million drained from a rewards liquidity pool via AmountWithBonus variable manipulation.
DOJ SDNY Press Release2021-04-08
Alleged extortion: Spalletta allegedly contacted Uranium Finance and extracted approximately $386,000 as a fraudulent 'bug bounty' in exchange for returning the remainder of the first theft.
BleepingComputer2021-04-28
Alleged second hack of Uranium Finance: approximately $53.3 million drained across 26 liquidity pools via a single-character swap-contract coding error; exchange forced to shut down permanently.
DOJ SDNY Press Release2021-04-28
Alleged Telegram 'War Room' deception: Spalletta and co-conspirators allegedly posed as investigators and promoted a false white-hat narrative, returning approximately $2 million to a wallet they controlled but presented as the official developer wallet.
Decrypt / IQ.wiki2023-12-01
On-chain investigator ZachXBT published a report linking approximately 11,200 ETH withdrawn from Tornado Cash to the Uranium Finance attacker, documenting the conversion into rare physical collectibles via U.S. brokers.
Decrypt: Feds Recover $31 Million in Crypto From 2021 Uranium Finance Exploit2025-02-24
Federal agents executed a search warrant at Spalletta's Rockville, Maryland residence, seizing approximately $31 million in cryptocurrency and multiple high-value physical collectibles including the Black Lotus MTG card, sealed Alpha Booster packs, first-edition Pokemon sets, a Julius Caesar Eid Mar coin, and Wright Brothers airplane fabric.
BleepingComputer: US recovers $31 million stolen in 2021 Uranium Finance hack2026-03-30
Indictment unsealed by SDNY; Jonathan Spalletta surrendered to authorities and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang. Charged with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering.
DOJ SDNY Press Release2026-09-01
Trial scheduled before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, SDNY. Exact September 2026 date pending court scheduling.
MLex: Alleged Uranium Finance hacker gets September US trial dateDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/2/2026, 4:08:23 PM
last updated: 6/2/2026, 4:20:06 PM
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