2019-12-3 17:40 |
Nordea Bank has won a court battle in Denmark over its bid to bar employees from buying and selling cryptocurrencies outside of work. origin »
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Neil Bush, son of former US President George H. W. Bush, was paid $300,000 by Ruja Ignatova for attending a meeting related to her fraudulent cryptocurrency known as OneCoin, according to law360, citing a failed subpoena bid.
2019-11-16 20:27 | |
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Investors in Centra Tech, a defunct crypto firm that was accused of fraud, defended their renewed class certification bid in a Florida federal court yesterday, after being denied in an initial motion.
2019-10-23 15:00 | |
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Longfin Corp. , one of the firms that suddenly joined the crypto bandwagon in a bid to take advantage of the bitcoin bull run of 2017, has been ordered by a New York federal court to pay nearly seven million dollars in penalties and disgorgement for fraudulent practices, according to a press release on September 30,Read MoreRead More.
2019-10-1 23:00 | |
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Craig Steven Wright, the man who’s claimed to be Bitcoin’s anonymous creator countless times, is down to his last hope in the epic $10 billion Dave Kleiman lawsuit: settlement. According to a Florida Federal Court document, which was submitted yesterday, Wright and the Kleiman estate have requested an extension on all deadlines in a bid to begin settlement talks.
2019-9-18 13:17 | |
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A US federal judge has rejected AT&T‘s request to dismiss a $224 million lawsuit over a devastating SIM-swapping incident that led to $24 million in stolen cryptocurrency. A press release confirms the communications giant will face court over allegations it violated the Federal Communications Act, a consumer contract, as well as several other laws, when hackers assumed the identity (and telephone account) of cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin in 2017.
2019-7-23 13:05 | |
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A Texas federal court has granted a motion for a default judgement against two individuals who solicited money by fraudulently representing the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) in a bid to extract Bitcoin from investors.
2019-7-11 11:49 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bits of Gold has won a notable legal victory over an Israeli bank in its bid to keep access to banking services.
2019-6-4 11:00 | |
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When cryptocurrency exchanges fail, a seismic shock shudders through the cryptosphere. With thousands of users, from traders to companies, left out of pocket, litigation is inevitable in a bid to claw back some of the losses.
2019-6-2 21:03 | |
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Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
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Dark web drug dealer Mathew Phan will have to bid farewell to the Bitcoin stash he had stored in a personal computer prior to his arrest by Canadian law enforcement in 2015. On Wed, April 3, Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly asked the relevant authorities to seize 281.
2019-4-4 17:04 | |
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Defunct cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX’s should enter bankruptcy proceedings in a bid to minimize costs and facilitate the recovery of assets for creditors, according to a report by Ernst & Young (EY), its court appointed monitor.
2019-4-3 12:23 | |
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Mark Karpeles with user funds kept on Mt. Gox in a bid to obfuscate the losses. He was handed a 33-month suspended sentence, Bloomberg reports. The Tokyo District Court also found the Frenchman ‘not-guilty’ of embezzlement, after it decided he had committed those crimes without ill intent.
2019-3-15 13:36 | |
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For Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the shuttered Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, the hits just keep on coming, this time from more than 6,000 miles away. An Illinois court in a Memorandum Opinion and Order issued on March 12 has denied Karpeles the chance to make a class action complaint in which he is named as a defendant go away, despite the fact that the infamous cryptocurrency exchange was based in Tokyo.
2019-3-14 19:06 | |
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Justice Wood has appointed legal counsel to represent some 115,000 creditors in incipient legal proceedings against seemingly insolvent cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, documents published today, February 19, 2019, from the Halifax, Nova Scotia court reveal.
2019-2-20 00:52 | |
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According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
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OpenAI has challenged the jurisdiction of an Indian court to compel the removal of ChatGPT’s training data, asserting that such an order would conflict with its legal obligations under US law, Reuters reported, citing a recent court filing.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated enforcement actions against Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its subsidiary Genesis on Jan. 17. The regulator ordered DCG to pay a $38 million civil penalty and comply with a cease-and-desist order to prevent future violations of securities laws.
As the United States prepares for Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, interest in Bitcoin among US investors has increased significantly. Data from CryptoQuant shows that the Coinbase Premium Index (CPI)—a key metric comparing Bitcoin prices on Coinbase and Binance—briefly turned positive on Jan.
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted Coinbase a partial victory in its legal dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a Jan. 13 ruling. The panel of judges, led by Circuit Judge Ambro, deemed the SEC’s reasoning “arbitrary and capricious” under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a standard requiring […] The post Coinbase scores legal win, court orders SEC to explain lack of crypto rulemaking appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit aimed at disrupting cybercriminal operations that abuse generative AI technologies, according to a Jan. 10 announcement. The legal action, unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia, targets a foreign-based threat group accused of bypassing safety measures in AI services to produce harmful and illicit content.
Kenya’s Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has announced plans for a draft policy aimed at regulating virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. Speaking on Friday, Mbadi said the proposed framework seeks to leverage the opportunities presented by cryptocurrencies while…
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia indicted three Russian nationals for their alleged roles in operating crypto mixers Blender. io and Sinbad. io — tools used to launder funds tied to cybercrime, including ransomware and virtual currency thefts.