Crime & Justice

‘Serious Sketchball’: How a Crypto Pastor Scammed His Flock

MATTHEW 19:24

Eli Regalado could sell anything to anyone—but when he peddled a boom-and-bust cryptocurrency, the authorities caught up with him.

Kate Briquelet 

Senior Reporter

Noah Kirsch 

Wealth and Power Reporter

A photo illustration of Eli Regalado as a priest holding a bible with a crypto coin with the cross on it rotating above his head
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Facebook
Kate Briquelet

Kate Briquelet

Senior Reporter

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Noah Kirsch

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Wealth and Power Reporter

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