A Houston man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison stay after robbing investors of millions in savings through a bogus cryptocurrency that was supposedly backed by a collection of works by Salvador Dalí , Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso , and other famed artists. Nearly 1,000 victims were cheated out of more than $20 million, with many losing their entire savings.  A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois convicted Robert Dunlap, 55, on mail fraud charges in 2025. Earlier this month, US District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt sentenced him to 23 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay restitution. Related Articles For five years, between 2018 and 2023, Dunlap claimed to be running a cryptocurrency business that peddled a digital asset, “Meta-1 Coin.” He told potential investors that the asset was backed by up to $1 billion in art and $44 billion in gold, telling his victims that an accounting firm had audited the gold and confirmed its value.…