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Relief for crypto businesses increasingly materialized as prosecutors stated plans to reduce crackdowns after President Donald Trump’s re-election. origin »
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The US Treasury told Congress this month that crypto mixers have legitimate uses — including protecting consumer privacy. Related Reading: Crypto Funding Soars 50%, But Most Startups Are Getting Shut Out: Analysts Days later, federal prosecutors in Manhattan moved to put the man who built one of the most-used mixers back on trial. A Split […]
2026-3-11 10:00 | |
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FTX co-founder Gary Wang, convicted of misusing funds at a fictitious crypto exchange, may face punishment after his case goes to trial. On Nov. 13, prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York filed a…
2024-11-15 01:48 | |
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Prosecutors petitioned a New York federal court to seize crypto they alleged is linked to bribes paid to Chinese officials by Sam Bankman-Fried.
2024-11-13 08:00 | |
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Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive officer of Alameda Research, has begun her two-year prison sentence following her conviction related to the FTX crypto exchange collapse. Ellison, who reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors and served as the star…
2024-11-7 20:52 | |
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US prosecutors have requested that the court favorably consider former FTX executive Nishad Singh’s “substantial assistance” during their investigation into the failed crypto exchange, according to an Oct.
2024-10-24 21:45 | |
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Prosecutors have requested that Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty last year to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, should spend five years behind bars for his crime.
2024-10-18 19:25 | |
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The Bitfinex crypto hack resulted in the theft of 120,000 Bitcoin Ilya Lichtenstein used a series of sophisticated methods to hide the stolen funds between 2016 and 2022 He told his wife and co-conspirator about the hack in 2020 who then helped him to hide the stolen assets US prosecutors have told a judge that […] The post US prosecutors urge judge to hand Bitfinex hack mastermind five-year sentence appeared first on CoinJournal.
2024-10-17 15:28 | |
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US prosecutors urged a Washington federal judge that Ilya Lichtenstein, the mastermind who extracted 120,000 Bitcoin ($8 billion) by hacking into the Bitfinex crypto exchange, should get five years in prison.
2024-10-16 12:00 | |
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Сообщение Prosecutors Charge Two Crypto Market Makers and Employees with Market Manipulation and Fraud появились сначала на Coinstelegram.
2024-10-10 23:06 | |
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On Wednesday, US prosecutors charged four crypto companies and 14 individuals in what is hailed as the first criminal prosecution targeting financial services firms for market manipulation and sham trading activities within the crypto sector.
2024-10-10 22:51 | |
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Four cryptocurrency companies and 14 individuals have been charged in what U. S. prosecutors describe as the first criminal prosecution targeting market manipulation and sham trading in the crypto industry.
2024-10-10 22:43 | |
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Gobit and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted to artificially inflate their trading volume, prosecutors allege.
2024-10-11 22:39 | |
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United States prosecutors announced nearly $5 million worth of Tether (USDT) has been seized from a crypto scammer, while in Kansas, a former bank CEO is going to jail for embezzlement.
2024-8-23 08:58 | |
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The Bitcoin authorship saga continues after a UK judge directed Craig Wright’s case to British prosecutors for alleged perjury and forgery of documents. The direction follows the latest ruling in the legal battle between the Australian computer scientist and the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA).
2024-7-17 21:39 | |
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Juan Tacuri, oe of the top promoters in the Forcount crypto ponzi scheme – a Brazil-based scam that bilked Spanish-speaking investors around the world of a collective $8.4 million – has pleaded guilty to his role in the operation, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
2024-6-7 01:03 | |
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Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a far-right international media company, is accused of taking part in a multi-million crypto laundering scheme. U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Jun. 3, charging Weidong “Bill” Guan, the…
2024-6-5 11:46 | |
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Do Kwon remains in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and South Korea. Meanwhile, prosecutors are continuing to clamp down on crypto mixers. April’s been a pretty significant month when it comes to crypto crime. Where else to start than with…
2024-5-3 12:27 | |
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The U.S. Attorney's Office is examining the financial transactions of Jack Dorsey's Block.
2024-5-2 20:34 | |
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The crypto market ended the week with various notable headlines, with Binance, Shiba Inu (SHIB), and Ripple (XRP) dominating trends over the last seven days. Binance founder faces a 36-month jail term New legal updates reveal former Binance CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao awaits sentencing for violating the United States’ money-laundering regulations. US prosecutors asked for a […]
2024-4-29 13:18 | |
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Federal prosecutors charges Samurai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering on Wednesday, as the U.S. government continues its approach to prosecuting crypto mixing tools that may be used by illicit actors and foreign governments to hide fund transfers.
2024-4-25 22:10 | |
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Two SEC lawyers, Michael Welsh and Joseph Watkins, have resigned from the agency due to “materially false and misleading representations” made in a crypto case last year.
2024-4-23 23:30 | |
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David Pan, the founder of the Taiwanese crypto exchange ACE, alongside six other suspects, has been charged by prosecutors with fraud and money laundering. According to the official press release, a court ruled the confiscation of Pan’s assets.
2024-4-11 01:30 | |
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U. S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws on Tuesday, saying the exchange operated in the U. S. , lied to at least one of its investors about operating in the U.
2024-3-26 18:11 | |
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As Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of defunct crypto exchange FTX readies for his prison sentence, prosecutors have formally requested the court to authorize the sale of two jets linked to the former crypto billionaire.
2024-3-24 22:00 | |
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers criticize prosecutors’ 50-year prison proposal as distorted, amid wire fraud and conspiracy accusations related to his crypto empire’s downfall. U.S. prosecutors’ proposal to put FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in prison for as long as 50 years adopts…
2024-3-20 10:33 | |
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2024-3-18 02:05 | |
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The prosecutors in the fraud case against the former CEO of the now-defunct FTX exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), have now suggested a jail sentence to the court. This development comes as the sentencing of the former crypto billionaire is slated for later this month.
2024-3-17 11:34 | |
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, deserves a jail term of not less than 40 years, US prosecutors said on Friday. According to the sentencing memo the Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, filed on Friday, what Bankman-Fried needs is 40 to 50 years in prison. The prosecution […]
2024-3-16 23:24 | |
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Prosecutors recommended that a federal judge sentence FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to at least 40 and as many as 50 years in prison for his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the collapse of what was once one of the world's largest crypto exchanges.
2024-3-16 21:32 | |
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The Crypto Open Patent Alliance said it will ask U.K. prosecutors to consider pursuing Wright for “perjury” over his defense of forgery allegations.
2024-3-13 19:34 | |
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Ilya Lichtenstein, one of the crypto industry's most high-stakes criminals, is now helping federal prosecutors in their case against Bitcoin Fog, one of the mixing services he said he'd used to conceal assets.
2024-2-29 02:12 | |
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A federal judge approved the U.S. Department of Justice's $4.3 billion fine on Binance after the crypto exchange pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws last November.
2024-2-24 23:44 | |
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Raided by a Swiss prosecutor, Tyr Capital Partners is facing accusations of criminal mismanagement due to its ties to FTX. The Switzerland-based crypto hedge fund, Tyr Capital Partners, came under scrutiny in August 2023 after investors raised concerns about its…
2024-2-21 10:50 | |
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U.S. prosecutors have called for stringent oversight of the Binance crypto exchange, proposing up to five years of monitoring.
2024-2-19 20:41 | |
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Federal prosecutors in Washington state have charged two Estonian citizens with running a series of crypto scams that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors around the world of a combined $575 million.
2022-11-22 22:51 | |
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Crypto bigshot Do Kwon, who is wanted by prosecutors and the subject of a class action lawsuit by more than 300 investors from Singapore, is reportedly seeking refuge in Europe. This is according to information shared both by the South Korean prosecutors and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).
2022-11-5 12:02 | |
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Korean prosecutors have obtained proof that Do Kwon purposely manipulated Terra’s (LUNA) market price, as announced by crypto influencer @FatManTerra. The post Korean authorities reportedly have proof of Kwon’s LUNA price manipulations appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-11-3 21:27 | |
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Coinspeaker Prosecutors Seek 8-year Jail Term for Owner of Top South Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb Crypto exchange FTX is reportedly in talks to buy Bithumb. The legal issues connected to its former chairman will, however, hinder any possible sale.
2022-10-25 15:55 | |
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The owner of South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, Lee Jung-hoon, is likely to be sentenced to eight years in prison for committing fraud.
2022-10-26 13:36 | |
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Turkish prosecutors confiscated $40 million worth of crypto and arrested 35 people scattered in eight cities on October 20 for running an illegal crypto betting platform, as reported by local news outlets.
2022-10-21 22:26 | |
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Federal prosecutors alleged that five Russian nationals laundered "millions of dollars" worth of unnamed cryptocurrency as part of a scheme to smuggle military technology and oil.
2022-10-20 21:17 | |
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Celsius Network faces high scrutiny from the U.S. federal prosecutors
2022-10-15 04:43 | |
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Korean prosecutors have reportedly frozen $40 million of funds Kwon had attempted to conceal on crypto exchanges KuCoin and OKX. The post Terra LUNA Do Kwon Lashes out at Fake Reports About Frozen Funds appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-6 20:30 | |
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Terra founder Do Kwon has described news of South Korean prosecutors freezing his $39. 66 million crypto as a “falsehood. ” I don't get the motivation behind spreading this falsehood – muscle flexing? But to what end? Once again, I don't even use Kucoin and OkEx, have no time to trade, no funds have been frozen.
2022-10-5 18:58 | |
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According to a report from Reuters, the CEO and founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, was under investigation by U. S. federal prosecutors. Launched in 2020 by the Justice Department, authorities in the country were seeking information about the company’s anti-money laundering activity.
2022-9-1 17:25 | |
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On Wednesday, a team of South Korean investigators raided the offices of seven domestic crypto exchanges as part of an ongoing probe into the fall of Terraform Labs’ dual tokens LUNA and TerraUSD (UST) according to a report in a local media outlet.
2022-7-21 23:32 | |
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The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office reportedly raided the offices of crypto exchanges Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Copax, among others on Wednesday.
2022-7-20 19:00 | |
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As part of the investigation into the collapse of Terra in May, South Korean prosecutors raided seven local crypto exchanges on July 20, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency. The post South Korean investigators raid 7 local exchanges in Terra probe appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-7-20 18:10 | |
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This week US prosecutors announced that six people have been indicted in four fraudulent NFT and crypto schemes involving more than $130 million in losses to investors. Included in the indictments were a Ponzi scheme, an ICO, investment fraud and an NFT scam.
2022-7-9 11:26 | |
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Основатель инвестиционной компании SkyBridge Capital Энтони Скарамуччи (Anthony Scaramucci) сравнил биткоин с долларом и заявил, что первая криптовалюта соответствует всем требованиям денежной системы.
Senator Warren questions SEC Chair Atkins over 2025 data, citing decline in enforcement actions and raising concerns about Congress testimony.
Банк Goldman Sachs подал в Комиссию по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) заявку на запуск биржевого фонда Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. Фонд планирует инвестировать не менее 80% чистых активов в инструменты, привязанные к биткоину, преимущественно в спотовые биржевые продукты (ETP).
Сенатор-реcпубликанец от штата Вайоминг Синтия Ламмис (Cynthia Lummis) призвала Конгресс как можно скорее принять законопроект о распределении полномочий по контролю за рынком цифровых активов и выплате процентов доходности по стейблкоинам.
Инвестиционная компания Bitwise внесла корректировки в заявку для Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) на запуск нового спотового биржевого фонда (ETF). Фонд отслеживает токен HYPE децентрализованной платформы торговли деривативами Hyperliquid.
Правозащитная группа Blockchain Association обратилась в Комиссию по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) с опровержением аргументов американского маркетмейкера Citadel Securities о токенизированных финансах и протоколах децентрализованных финансов (DeFi).
Crypto regulation clarity improves as SEC and CFTC align, while Pepeto gains traction with strong presale growth, live utility, and a major listing catalyst ahead.