The feds say two brothers stole $25 million in crypto in 12 seconds. The defense says they merely outsmarted bots.

Ana Maria Rus

Federal prosecutors allege two MIT-educated brothers pulled off a cryptocurrency heist in a matter of seconds, stealing $25 million in a "first-of-its-kind" fraud scheme. The brothers' defense? There was no fraud at all. All they did was outsmart some "predatory" automated trading bots. In the dog-eat-dog Wild West of crypto trading, it was fair game, not fraud. That's what defense attorneys for Anton Peraire-Bueno, 25, and James Peraire-Bueno, 29, are set to argue when the brothers' criminal