2020-11-18 02:52 |
The Australian is facing six charges that carry penalties of between 2-10 years in prison.
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Man sentenced to two years and six months in prison after multi-million dollar crypto fraud.
2020-7-22 19:18 | |
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A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years.
2019-11-13 15:20 | |
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Since the unraveling of Silk Road, its creator, Ross Ulbricht, has served six full years since his initial imprisonment. All this time is just a small dent on the double life sentence plus 40 years that Ulbricht received in May 2015, on charges of money-laundering and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
2019-10-2 17:00 | |
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has spent six years in prison and has 34 years and two life sentences to go unless a petition spearheaded by his mother and sister lead to a grant of clemency. 195K Signatures and Counting For Ulbricht A petition seeking clemency for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is quickly approaching 200,000 signatures.
2019-8-21 17:00 | |
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Craig Wright, the notorious creator of Bitcoin SV, failed to disclose his Bitcoin holdings in spite of an order from a Florida court. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto could be sentenced to up to six months in prison and will face a contempt hearing on June 28.
2019-6-25 05:58 | |
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October 1, 2018, marked five years since I was imprisoned. My physical surroundings today are ironically similar to what they were after my arrest back in 2013. I’m in the SHU again (Special Housing Unit, aka “the hole”).
2019-5-29 22:50 | |
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A group of six hackers by the name “The Community” are to be sentenced to more than 20 years each in prison for stealing more than $2. 4 million worth of cryptocurrencies using multiple SIM swap attacks, Independent IE reported May 13, 2019.
2019-5-14 05:00 | |
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By CCN: WikiLeaks Co-Founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail by a UK court for violating bail conditions back in 2012 when he took refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy as he feared being extradited to the U.
2019-5-1 21:00 | |
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Mark Karpeles, the founder of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was found guilty of tampering with records and given a suspended prison sentence of two years and six months. The High Court ruling comes five years after a massive security breach in 2014 at Mt.
2019-3-15 06:02 | |
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Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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A British citizen has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after he tried to bomb a British cryptocurrency firm. The 43-year-old convict resented the company because of their failure to reset his account password.
2018-11-12 22:29 | |
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A Texas man, formerly a citizen of Somer, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his involvement in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth $9 million. Homero Joshua Garza, the 33-year-old convict, will be put under three years of supervised release after his jail term ends.
2018-9-15 07:00 | |
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Just recently Josh Garza was sentenced to 21 months of prison and six months of home confinement for his role in the many Ponzi scams like Gaw Miners, Zen Miners, Hashlets, and of course the controversial Paycoin that appeared in 2014.
2018-9-15 04:15 | |
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U. S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut has announced Homero Joshua Garza (Josh Garza) has been sentenced to “21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, the first six months of which [Mr.
2018-9-14 16:40 | |
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The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates.
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
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From crypto queen to global fugitive: OneCoin’s Ruja Ignatova disappeared with billions, leaving a mystery still unsolved. For eight years, the world has speculated about the fate of Ruja Ignatova: the so-called “Cryptoqueen” who vanished with billions after pitching OneCoin,…
A Brazilian citizen appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle following extradition from Switzerland to face $290 million Bitcoin investment fraud charges. According to the press release from the US Department of Justice, Douver T. Braga pleaded not guilty to…
Is Jamie Dimon’s criticism of Bitcoin justified, or is it overshadowed by JPMorgan’s blockchain investments and data showing crypto’s decreasing role in crime? Jamie Dimon fires again When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks, the financial world pays close attention.…
A 51-year-old Miami resident and pastor is accused of using his pulpit to swindle unsuspecting souls into a cryptocurrency scam. According to a Jan. 8 release from the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District…
Analyst Jacob King has labeled MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin-focused business model a “giant scam,” claiming it is unsustainable and destined for collapse. King, a contributor to the Whalewire newsletter, issued this critique of MicroStrategy in a detailed post on X. King argued…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a civil enforcement action against Washington State pastor Francier Obando Pinillo for allegedly operating a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme involving digital assets.