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Changpeng Zhao's defense team advocates for combined home detention and community confinement, emphasizing his willingness to take responsibility for Binance’s criminal charges. origin »
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Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey has speculated that the U.S. Department of Justice might be rapidly conducting Silk Road BTC liquidations. In a Mar. 10 post on X, Bailey suggested that Silk Road liquidations could be happening despite U.S. President…
This marks the first criminal tax evasion prosecution centered solely on bitcoin.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a website to collect information from individuals affected by the 2016 Bitfinex hack, according to a Nov. 7 statement. The DOJ announced it was inviting statements from those impacted by the hack, including affected Bitfinex account holders.
Evan Frederick Light, 21, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison after stealing $37 million worth of crypto from an investment holdings company located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The U.S Department of Justice stated in a press…
The Justice Department named Forensic Risk Alliance as Binance's outside monitor after it pleaded guilty to violating U.S. money-laundering regulations and trade sanctions.
Ukrainian national, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, also known as Rabotnik, has been sentenced 13 years and seven months in prison for his role in conducting over 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding over $700 million in ransom payments, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Changpeng Zhao, the ousted CEO of cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance, walked away from court this week with a sentence many see as a slap on the wrist. Zhao, better known in the crypto world as “CZ,” received four months in prison for failing to implement sufficient anti-money laundering (AML) safeguards at Binance. Related Reading: Stagflation […]