A Nebraska resident and self-described cryptocurrency influencer, Charles O. Parks III, was sentenced in a New York federal court to one year and one day in prison for running a large-scale “cryptojacking” operation that stole more than $3.5 million in cloud-computing resources. Prosecutors said that between January and August 2021 Parks, operating online under the alias “CP3O,” set up shell entities such as MultiMillionaire LLC and CP3O LLC and pretended to build an online education platform. The ruse secured high-capacity accounts from two major cloud providers, which he used instead to run cryptocurrency-mining scripts that generated nearly $1 million in Ether, Litecoin and Monero while leaving the service providers with unpaid bills. Parks, 46, forfeited $500,000 in illicit proceeds and a Mercedes-Benz purchased with the gains; restitution will be determined at a later date. The investigation, led by the FBI’s New York Cyber Crimes Task Force, is part of a broader federal effort to curb cryptojacking and other forms of digital-asset fraud.