Federal jury in Fort Worth convicts CEO of fraud in crypto mining Ponzi scheme

Caleb Ward was getting married, and in the fall of 2022 went to Las Vegas for the wedding with Jeremy McNutt, with whom Ward had founded a bitcoin mining company that had a primary location in Fort Worth.

Ward, the chief executive at Geosyn, which had a facility in Springtown, took $10,000 on the trip. McNutt, the company’s chief operating officer, used a credit card to run up $17,000 in nightclub bills in one night.

The Las Vegas expenditures, though grand, would be fine had they not been made using investor funds, according to federal law enforcement authorities…

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