Edith Pardo News Today

An Essex County woman admitted her role in a securities scheme that fraudulently induced victims to invest $25+ million in cash and crypto.

Pardo lied to investors about being wealthy and investing millions of her own funds into the company, officials said.

In late 2016, a tech start-up debuted in New York, one that would eventually come to be known as Blockchain Terminal. It was founded by a man who called himself Shaun MacDonald, a dark-bearded Torontonian who wore thick-framed glasses and had an awkward, self-effacing air, as well as a faint, indiscernible accent that most people attributed to his Irish roots. Shaun’s background was in marketing and product design, but at investor meetings he came alive, pitching with a zeal that financiers f...