The U.S. Attorney’s Office is turning heads with their most recent Twitter photo of the $20 million found in a mattress’ box spring in Boston.
The money, which was obtained by a massive TelexTree pyramid scheme, was tweeted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office yesterday and it has since thrown the story into the viral world.
Brazilian man Carlos Wanzeler was the former owner of the money-stacked box spring and fled to his home country in 2014 after a tipster let federal agents know of his pyramid scheme, which is illegal in America. For the past few years, Wanzeler had an associate go into the Boston apartment to pull a few million at a time from the box spring to send back to Brazil for Wanzeler.
The associate Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, 28, has been charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. Wanzeler and his co-founder of TelexFree were indicted in 2014 and await sentencing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
