2022-12-22 05:17 |
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday that Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang pleaded guilty to charges tied to FTX's collapse. origin »
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The case against bankrupt crypto lender Celsius took a new turn as one of its former executives came forward. According to a report from Reuters, Roni Cohen-Pavon, ex-Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at the company, pleaded guilty to criminal charges.
2023-9-14 18:21 | |
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Coinspeaker SBF Pleads Not Guilty to Additional Charges, Including Bribing Chinese Government Official On Thursday, embattled ex-FTX CEO SBF pled not guilty to the latest federal charges, which he also does not acknowledge.
2023-3-31 13:15 | |
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Sam Bankman-Fried had pled not guilty to federal charges that he defrauded the investors of his bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The post SBF Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to All Charges as Judge Grants Redaction of Bail Signers’ Identities appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-1-4 00:01 | |
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OneCoin founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood has been found guilty of multiple charges, according to a statement from the United States Department of Justice on December 16. The post OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty on fraud, money laundering charges appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-12-17 01:30 | |
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One of the founders behind OneCoin pleaded guilty to federal U.S. charges on Friday after one of the largest financial scams of all time, according to the Department of Justice. The purported cryptocurrency project was fraudulent from its 2014 beginnings, prosecutors said, with OneCoin – co-founded by Karl Greenwood – setting up a pyramid scheme to market it to millions of people, generating as much as $4 billion in revenue.
2022-12-17 22:13 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) zero tolerance for insider trading in digital assets took a new turn in July as the commission arrested Coinbase staff Ishan Wahi and his brother Nikhil Wahi.
2022-9-15 10:17 | |
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Nikhil Wahi and his brother Ishan were arrested and charged in July, while their associate Sameer Ramani remained at large at the time of publication.
2022-9-13 23:45 | |
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The brother of a former Coinbase executive, Nikhil Wahi in late July was arrested for trading on confidential information.
2022-9-13 20:48 | |
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The head-trader of crypto platform EmpiresX pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit a securities fraud. The charges on the alleged are in connected with a global ponzi scheme that defraudeThe post EmpiresX: What now as head trader pleads guilty to $100 million ponzi scheme appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-9-9 21:00 | |
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Ex-Coinbase Product Manager Ishan Wahi has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges leveled against him by the United States Department of Justice before a Manhattan federal court on August 3. The post Ex-Coinbase Manager pleads not guilty to insider trading charges appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-8-4 20:00 | |
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Atlanta film producer Ryan Felton has pleaded guilty to charges indicating he ran a… The post Hollywood film producer pleads guilty to $2.5M crypto scam appeared first on CoinJournal.
2022-7-26 17:40 | |
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A former Canadian government worker has pleaded guilty to charges of working for a ransomware gang that realized more than $50 million. The post Canadian NetWalker Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-6-29 17:00 | |
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Ben Delo pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act earlier this year.
2022-6-16 01:18 | |
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The former football player was initially indicted on charges of banking fraud in 2019 and additional charges in 2020.
2022-4-26 22:43 | |
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Two young men have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly ripping off Frosties NFT community. They face up to 40 years in prison if found guilty on both counts.
2022-3-27 23:04 | |
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The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that BitMEX founders had entered a guilty plea to charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to set in place an anti-money laundering system. Benjamin Delo and Arthur Hayes, two of the co-founders, have agreed to each pay a $10 million fine as part of […]
2022-2-25 11:00 | |
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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is facing up to 6. 5 years jail term, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy. The developer had allegedly taken a trip to North Korea back in 2019, to aid them in using Eth to bypass United States sanctions.
2021-9-29 18:13 | |
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Former BitConnect promoter Glenn Arcaro has pled guilty to his role in the saga, but the whereabouts of the firm’s founder, Satish Kumbhani, are unknown.
2021-9-2 05:13 | |
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Former Cryptopia Ltd. employee pleads guilty to stealing NZD 250,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies from the exchange. The employee returned the funds and will not face any charges.
2021-7-6 21:30 | |
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Jimmy Gale Watson Jr., former Navy Seal and bodyguard to John McAfee, the founder of the popular Anti-virus software company, has denied all accusations of involvement in a set of crypto-scams that reThe post 'Not guilty,' pleads McAfee's bodyguard to charges of involvement in $13M crypto-scams appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-3-23 13:38 | |
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BitMEX cofounder Benjamin Delo has turned himself in following charges that the exchange skirted AML laws.
2021-3-17 23:08 | |
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Sohrab Sharma, a co-founder with the now-defunct Florida cryptocurrency firm, Centra Tech, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of duping investors via a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).
2021-3-8 13:05 | |
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An Ontario man based in San Bernardino County of the U.S. has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally operating a bitcoin to cash exchange business. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the man, Hugo Sergio Mejia, 49, operated the unregistered exchange business between May 2018 and September 2020. Accordingly, Mejia […]
2021-2-2 12:20 | |
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According to the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), a man from Ontario, California, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally operating a crypto exchange. On 29 January, The post California resident to plead guilty to operating unlicensed Bitcoin exchange service appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-2-2 02:30 | |
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Alexander Vinnik, an alleged BTC-e operator, was found guilty of money laundering in France and sentenced to five years in prison.
2020-12-8 18:18 | |
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The founder of the Bitclub Network admitted charges against him of selling unregistered securities and filing a false tax return. The damage from Bitclub's actions is estimated at $722 million.
2020-9-9 23:04 | |
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A Bitclub Network Ponzi scheme promoter has admitted to charges of selling unregistered securities and to subscribing to a false tax return in connection with his role in the $722 million fraud scam.
2020-9-7 02:45 | |
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26-year-old Bryan Connor Herrell from Colorado, the former moderator of the AlphaBay darknet market place has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to a Tuesday announcement by the US Department of Justice, Connor Herrell pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to AlphaBay.
2020-9-3 01:07 | |
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Kais Mohammad, aka “Superman29,” has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he ran an unlicensed Bitcoin ATM network that laundered up to $25 million.
2020-7-23 23:44 | |
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One of four men charged with defrauding investors of over $722 million through a long-running cryptomining scheme has pleaded guilty to charges against him.
2020-7-11 12:22 | |
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The co-founder of the Infraud Organization pleaded guilty to racketeering charges before a U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada.
2020-6-29 01:00 | |
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Former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has agreed to plead guilty in a case involving a cryptocurrency scam. How did this former filmmaker turned lobbyist end up involved in a cryptocurrency scam? And who exactly is Jack Abramoff? Former Lobbyist and Hollywood Filmmaker Involved in Cryptocurrency Scam Lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been hit with dual charges […]
2020-6-27 23:00 | |
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Jack Abramoff has agreed to plead guilty to charges of running a $5. 6 million Bitcoin scam. The disgraced lobbyist duped investors into purchasing tokens that he promised would be convertible into a new and improved version of Bitcoin.
2020-6-26 09:00 | |
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Two Romanian individuals pled guilty to the charges, says US Department of Justice The... The post 15 defendants plead guilty to fraud and money laundering techniques that used Bitcoin appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-6-13 15:11 | |
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Gemcoin founder Steve Chen appeared in court and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and tax evasion. He and other perpetrators duped some 70,000 unsuspecting individuals out of a cool $147 million to invest in USFIA.
2020-2-20 20:34 | |
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OneCoin associate Mark Scott was charged with two counts of money laundering totaling $400 million. Now, one of the enablers of Crypto’s biggest scam wants the charges against him dropped. OneCoin Aide Claims ‘Insufficient’ Evidence Mark Scott was found guilty by a jury last November of two counts of money laundering (wire fraud and bank fraud) for OneCoin and its elusive founder Ruja Ignatova totaling $400 million.
2020-2-5 16:00 | |
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Former Ethereum Foundation member, Virgil Griffith has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges filed against him by the U. S. Attorney’s office. Griffith who is accused of aiding North Korea in evading sanctions faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if found guilty.
2020-1-31 18:00 | |
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In a recent development in the Silk Road saga, Roger Thomas Clark, its alleged operator plead guilty. Clark who was initially charged back in 2015, plead guilty on the charges of "conspiring to distriThe post Silk Road adviser pleads guilty to narcotics conspiracy charges appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-31 14:30 | |
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Crypto Capital co-founder Reginald Fowler pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business Friday. Additional charges were dropped.
2020-1-18 23:15 | |
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Patrick McDonnell was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay victims $225,000 after pleading guilty to charges he defrauded investors in his crypto trading platform, CabbageTech.
2020-1-17 01:41 | |
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Eran Eyal, Shopin CEO, pleaded guilty today to charges of conducting an unregistered securities offering in an ICO that raised over $42 million. The SEC announced charges against Eyal in a Wednesday press release.
2019-12-13 05:53 | |
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Shopin founder Eran Eyal pleads guilty to felony charges for running a fraudulent initial coin offering that raised more than $42 million
2019-12-13 01:31 | |
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The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time to process an acquittal motion.
2019-12-11 22:30 | |
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Bogdan Nicolescu, the leader of the Bayrob Group hacker gang from Romania, as well as his co-conspirator Radu Miclaus, have been found guilty of charges related to their cryptojacking malware. The charges include 21 separate counts of wire fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and other crimes, according to a press release that was published […]
2019-12-10 23:51 | |
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Dennis Blieden stands to face 22 years behind bars after embezzling $22 million while serving as the vice president of finance and accounting at StyleHaul, a digital marketing firm. The professional poker player pleaded guilty to the charges, and his sentencing awaits him on March 20, 2020.
2019-11-26 22:34 | |
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Konstantin Ignatov, brother of the missing Cryptoqueen founder of OneCoin, pleads guilty to actions related to the known scam and now faces 90 years in prison. According to a BBC report on November 14, Ignatov will not risk further charges and could apply to the US witness protection.
2019-11-15 14:00 | |
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Hugh Brian Haney, a former narcotics dealer, has pled guilty to charges of laundering over $19 million USD of his profits that were raised illegally using Silk Road, a prominent dark web market. Now, according to the prosecutors of the Southern District of New York, a plea deal was struck and Haney will go to […]
2019-11-9 00:15 | |
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Brian Haney, a former narcotics trafficker, pled guilty to charges that he laundered $19 million in bitcoin on Silk Road.
2019-11-8 12:00 | |
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According to court documents, 2 men pleaded guilty in a US federal court to charges of hacking as well as extorting companies that comprised Uber and LinkedIn. This brought an end to a long legal dispute that involved data breaches.
2019-11-2 22:52 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.