A Coral Gables attorney who played a central role in a billion-dollar global cryptocurrency scam has started his 10-year sentence at a Miami federal prison earlier this month after a lengthy trial and appeals process.
Federal prosecutors had indicted the attorney, Mark S. Scott, in New York in 2018 for money laundering and bank fraud. He was convicted and sentenced six years later but was initially incarcerated at home with an ankle monitor pending his appeals.
Prosecutors had charged Scott, a former partner at Locke Lord, a Brickell law firm now called Troutman Pepper Locke, for his role in abetting Ruja Ignatova — a Bulgarian émigré to Germany, once dubbed the “Queen of Cryptocurrency” — and her company OneCoin…