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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that Christopher Furman a fifty-three-year-old attorney from Pittsburgh, Christopher Furman, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. According to the 10-count Indictment, in 2020, Furman was selected President of the Board of Trustees for the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline and it alleges that from October of 2024 to September of 2025, he transferred approximately $1,379,300 from the Society’s bank accounts into his own account via more than 25 electronic transactions. Furman worked for the organization that has operated the Duquesne Incline since the Society’s founding in 1964 based on his history as a former employee of the incline, his familiarity with the incline’s mechanical operations, as well as his background as an attorney. He was neither authorized to view the Society’s bank accounts nor to use its money for personal purposes in his role as President of that board. He then transferred that money to an online cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset management platform, which was where he purchased and sold cryptocurrency for his personal profit. Furman could face a maximum a maximum total sentence of up to 20 years in jail, a fine of the greater of $250,000 or an alternative of twice the gross pecuniary gain, or
both, provided by the law at each count of wire fraud. Furman could also face a maximum total sentence of up to 10 years in jail, a fine of the greater of $250,000 or an alternative of twice the amount of criminally derived property,
or both, provided by the law at each count of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from wire fraud (money laundering).