In court documents, federal prosecutors alleged Murgio, Lebedev and Anthony Murgio made more than $150,000 in bribes to Trevon Gross, former board chair of the conserved Helping Other People Excel Federal Credit Union of Jackson, N.J.

Michael Murgio allegedly negotiated with Gross, who is also a pastor at Hope Cathedral in Jackson, to place individuals on the board from the Coin.mx organization. This would allow the company to control the credit union and conceal its Bitcoin operations.

Joseph G. Sconzo, Murgio's lawyer in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment Friday.

After the Coin.mx business was integrated in 2014 into the operations of the credit union, which had just $290,000 in assets and 96 members, it was processing more than $30 million a month in ACH payments, according to court documents.

Gross was indicted on bribery charges March 3.

He assisted in placing both Anthony Murgio and Lebedev, as well as others, onto the board of directors.

Court documents showed Gross was becoming worried about the "tap dancing" he and others were doing to avoid raising concerns among federal regulators about the payment processing activities Anthony Murgio and others were conducting through the cooperative.

"We can't certify that all the people we let [pass] money through this credit union … weren't doing something illegally with the money," Gross wrote in an email to Murgio.

He also acknowledged the credit union had not performed appropriate Bank Secrecy Act procedures and, as a result, the credit union's account may have been used for money laundering and other crimes.

Although the NCUA learned the credit union was processing millions each month in ACH transactions, court documents did not say when the federal agency found out about it or when it forced the New Jersey cooperative to stop processing the ACH transactions.

The NCUA also required the credit union to remove the new board members appointed by Gross.

However, Anthony Murgio found other ways to process payments for Coin.mx – primarily through an overseas payments processor.

The NCUA liquidated the credit union in November 2015.

Additional indictments unsealed by prosecutors last year also revealed the owner of Coin.mx was Gery Shalon, the leader and self-described founder of a sprawling criminal enterprise that raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds. According to court documents, Shalon concealed at least $100 million in Swiss and other bank accounts.

From 2012 to mid-2015, Shalon allegedly orchestrated massive computer hacking crimes against seven U.S. financial institutions, including JP Morgan Chase Bank, national investment brokers Scott Trade and E*Trade, and the Dow Jones & Co, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal. The other financial institutions were not identified in court documents.

Federal prosecutors said personal information belonging to more than 100 million customers from these financial institutions was stolen. Of that total, the JP Morgan Chase accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses were compromised.

From 2007 to 2015, Shalon also owned unlawful internet gambling businesses in the U.S. and abroad, as well as multinational payment processors for illegal pharmaceutical suppliers, counterfeit and malicious software distributors and unlawful internet casinos.

Shalon and two other men, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein, operated the business and ran various criminal schemes, federal prosecutors alleged.

Shalon, Aaron and Orenstein allegedly used personal IDs they had stolen to send out emails to unsuspecting investors to promote and pump up the price of publicly-traded penny stocks that the three men and others owned. Once the price of the penny stock increased over the course of days or weeks, Shalon, Aaron and Orenstein dumped their shares, often resulting in millions of dollars in profits while exposing investors to significant losses.

The three were indicted on multiple felony counts of wire, computer and identity fraud. To date, they have not been arraigned in U.S. District Court. Reportedly, Shalon, Aaron and Orenstein live in Israel.