2019-10-1 13:51 |
A New York court has backed charges brought by the SEC that the fintech firm committed fraud relating to its public offering and Nasdaq listing.
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2019-10-1 13:51 |
A New York court has backed charges brought by the SEC that the fintech firm committed fraud relating to its public offering and Nasdaq listing.
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A 21-year old woman is due to appear in court for laundering millions of stolen funds in cryptos. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have been conducting investigations into the multi-layered cybercrime activity for more than twelve months.
2019-9-18 18:47 | |
Yesterday, August 28, Paige Thompson was indicted after allegedly hacking Capital One and 30 other entities. Along with being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud and abuse, court documents state Thompson used Capital One's cloud servers to mine cryptocurrency.
2019-8-29 19:10 | |
The former Amazon Web Services employee thought to be behind the data breach of Capital One bank earlier this year appears to have also used the infiltrated cloud servers to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency.
2019-8-29 09:19 | |
Earlier this year BitcoinExchangeGuide had reported a story about Lisa Angela Cheng and Kevin Patrick Hobbs having been accused of conducting a fraudulent Initial Coin Offering (ICO) based on deceit and false statements.
2019-8-20 19:00 | |
Two cryptocurrency fraudsters in Canada are asking the courts to give their stuff back claiming the order to seize their assets had been granted improperly. The court isn’t buying it, and has dismissed their appeal, local news reports.
2019-8-20 11:58 | |
A Supreme Court judge in Canada has upheld the seizure of assets in a crypto fraud case
2019-8-21 03:05 | |
Long-standing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will face a negligence lawsuit after allegedly mismanaging the launch of Bitcoin Cash on its platform, a judge has ruled. However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria threw fraud and unfair competition charges relating to the case.
2019-8-8 15:57 | |
The Northern District Court of California has slammed Coinbase's ‘incompetence’ over its controversial Bitcoin Cash launch in 2017. The court denied a renewed motion by the company to force arbitration against plaintiff Jeffrey Berk, but dismissed allegations of fraud against Coinbase.
2019-8-7 14:38 | |
Founders of the Orbs distributed ledger technology (DLT) project, Uriel and Daniel Peled have been sued by Elad Arad, a former partner of the duo in a failed joint venture called CoinTree Capital. Arad claims Uriel and Peled used the resources of CoinTree Capital to launch new crypto startups while also unlawfully dispossessing him ofRead MoreRead More.
2019-8-6 15:29 | |
According to documents from the U. K. ’s High Court of Justice published on July 31, a judge has denied Craig Wright’s libel lawsuit against Roger Ver. Wright filed the charge against Ver when the early bitcoin investor told the public he believed Wright was a “liar and a fraud.
2019-8-2 22:30 | |
Bitcoin SV creator Craig Wright claimed that he created Bitcoin as Satoshi Nakamoto—Bitcoin Cash founder Roger Ver called him a fraud. The two took the matter to court, and today, England’s high court ruled in favor of Ver.
2019-8-1 01:41 | |
Bitcoin SV creator Craig Wright claimed that he created Bitcoin as Satoshi Nakamoto—Bitcoin Cash founder Roger Ver called him a fraud. The two took the matter to court, and today, England’s high court ruled in favor of Ver.
2019-8-1 01:41 | |
Craig Wright’s legal campaign continues to experience turbulence, with a UK court dealing a devastating blow to the self-declared Bitcoin creator’s quest to use the strong arm of the law to unsully his less-than-stellar-reputation.
2019-8-1 23:02 | |
With the rise of data breaches, fraud, and identity theft, a growing number of projects are using blockchain technology for file and identity validation. Digital files are quite easy to tamper with, as Craig Wright recently demonstrated in his court battles with the Kleiman estate.
2019-8-1 22:48 | |
Craig S Wright’s libel suit against Roger Ver was dismissed by England and Wales High Court [Queen’s Bench Division]. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto had earlier filed a defamation case against the Bitcoin Cash proponent for calling him a “fraud”.
2019-7-31 17:50 | |
Ethereum cofounder Joseph Lubin was recently summoned to court in New York when a former employee initiated a lawsuit for more than $13 million. According to the summons stemming from former Token Foundry CEO, Harrison Hines, relief was being sought for alleged unpaid profits, fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract.
2019-7-25 17:00 | |
ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin was summoned to court in a $13 million lawsuit connected to failed ConsenSys spinout Token Foundry. Charges levied against Lubin by the startup’s former CEO, Harrison Hines, include fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract.
2019-7-23 23:28 | |
A final desperate effort to secure bail and at least somewhat lessen the role played by Konstantin Ignatov in the OneCoin Ponzi scheme has been denied. Konstantin, who stands accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was arrested on the 6th of March, 2019 at the Los Angeles International Airport for his role in the […]
2019-6-30 19:38 | |
Patrick McDonnell, a New York resident who goes by the nickname of “the Coyote of Wall Street” recently pleaded guilty to a cryptocurrency related wire fraud in federal court in Brooklyn. This, according to a report by Bloomberg, June 22, 2019.
2019-6-24 19:00 | |
Craig Wright, the controversial creator of Bitcoin SV claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, could be facing jail time for fraud. Documents from a Florida court proved that Wright committed perjury, as his defense contradicts an affidavit he previously submitted to an Australian court.
2019-6-15 23:11 | |
By CCN: Konstantin Ignatov, the CEO of the multi-billion-dollar “crypto” Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud. According to court documents, Ignatov entered the plea during a May 28 preliminary hearing via conference call.
2019-6-8 01:20 | |
By CCN: We previously reported on Craig Wright’s legal actions against Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast. Wright claims McCormack engaged in libel by calling him a “fraud” for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-5-22 20:45 | |
It has been recently revealed that an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraudster case has made its way to the US court. In particular, the Founder of the proclaimed crypto projects, REcoin and Diamond Reserve Club, Maksim Zaslavskiy pleaded guilty for having committed fraud reports Decrypt Media.
2019-5-18 21:09 | |
In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
Attorneys for Tether and Bitfinex are hoping to get the former access to its reserves amid a legal dispute with New York Office of the Attorney General (NYOAG). In a letter sent to the New York County Supreme Court, attorneys representing iFinex (the parent organization of Bitfinex) and Tether took issue with the restrictions that had been placed on Tether's transactions with related parties as part of an ongoing case against them, stating that the NYOAG had no basis for disallowing tether (USDT) holders and other affiliated entities from redeeming their tokens.
2019-5-16 18:51 | |
The US Court for the Southern District of Florida has dismissed the case of initial coin offering (ICO) fraud against DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather. The court decided that despite Khaled and Mayweather shilled defunct cryptocurrency firm CentraTech (and its associated ICO of CTR tokens) on their social media profiles, they did not play a big enough role in its promotion to warrant further legal action.
2019-5-15 17:05 | |
By CCN: A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled, and the proprietors of Centra Tech, an ICO that centered around the launch of a crypto debit card. Mayweather and Khaled were compensated for using their vast social media presence to promote the ICO.
2019-5-15 10:50 | |
Coinspeaker Crypto Investor Michael Terpin Wins $75 Million in Crypto Fraud CaseMichael Terpin, the victim of a SIM-swap fraud, will be paid $75. 8 million in punitive and compensatory damages, which is one of the single largest court judgments awarded to an individual in a cryptocurrency-related affair.
2019-5-13 15:40 | |
By CCN: The Bitfinex “mess” won’t be resolved anytime soon, charged Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin. His comments, which came on Thursday, come after a New York Supreme Court judge scathingly criticized the NY Attorney General who filed an injunction against Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-5-11 21:30 | |
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 | |
Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
iFinex lambasts New York Attorney General over “incomplete or incorrect facts” in new response to court case
2019-5-6 14:02 | |
Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has been the highlight of the cryptocurrency space ever since the NY Attorney General opened an investigation into the exchange alleging fraud.
2019-5-1 16:13 | |
By CCN. com: The U. S. Justice Department has nabbed one of two crypto fraudsters accused of a shadow banks scheme that entailed the processing of hundreds of millions of dollars of unregulated transactions on behalf of several cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-5-1 11:35 | |
The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
Craig Wright — known in the crypto-verse for his claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto— has taken his game to more extreme instances, threatening to push to court those who accuse him of being a fraud. . .
2019-4-14 08:50 | |
Craig S. Wright has officially taken the first steps in a legal action against a member of the Bitcoin community, according to a letter shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-4-12 21:55 | |
A 37 year-old man in the US has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for fraud in connection with a Bitcoin phishing scheme designed to rob victims of their cryptocurrency. Michael Richo, of New Haven, was also ordered to forfeit $352,000 in cash, various computers and electronic devices, and an assortment of precious coins and metals that he purchased with the proceeds of his offense.
2019-4-10 12:28 | |
QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order.
2019-4-3 01:19 | |
In Canada, authorities have seized luxury cars and frozen bank accounts owned by the ringleaders of FUEL, an allegedly fraudulent $22-million initial coin offering (ICO) from 2017. Court documents claim “blockchain services company” Vanbex raised $22 million (CAD$30 million) in cryptocurrency and fiat by with absolutely no intention to develop the FUEL token, reports CoinDesk.
2019-4-1 17:04 | |
The global crypto exchange HitBTC has recently decided to appeal to cryptography in order to defend itself against the team behind Bitcoin Private (BTCP) in a court case. It all started when the major exchange, which is described by CoinMarketCap as the 15th largest of the world by trade volume, was accused of fraud by […]
2019-3-30 00:58 | |
Embezzlement charges against Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the infamous Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, have been dropped, reported The Mainichi. Tokyo prosecutors had previously leveled charges of fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust on Karpeles.
2019-3-29 18:45 | |
Jon Montroll, the man behind BitFunder and WeExchange, was charged with fraud last February. He pleaded guilty last July, and will be sentenced in April. Montroll reportedly hid the theft of over 6,000 BTC from his platform in 2013, and went to great lengths to hide the hack – even lying to investigators.
2019-3-29 19:40 | |
New York resident Patrick McDonnell AKA “Jason Flack” was arrested and charged with nine counts of wire fraud in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday. McDonnell allegedly convinced others to “invest” in cryptocurrency through Facebook and Twitter, stealing the money for his own use and providing false balance statements in return.
2019-3-28 01:04 | |
Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national suspected of orchestrating a $4 billion bitcoin fraud has lodged an appeal with a Greek court for his extradition to Russia, this according to Greek media outlet Kathimerini, March 21, 2019.
2019-3-23 10:00 | |
Crypto entrepreneur, Morgan Rockcoons supposedly shared a business proposal in which crypto fanatics around the world can come together to create a crypto land dubbed, “Bitcointopia” in Nevada. This endeavor has supposedly become a court case, to which Rockcoons pleaded guilty in San Diego Federal Court on Thursday, March 7, 2019 reports The San Diego […]
2019-3-9 21:29 | |
As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
Court confirms two more U.S. citizens have been indicted on SIM-swapping charges
2019-2-5 16:37 | |
Silver Miller, a United States-based securities law firm committed to investment fraud and consumer class action cases, has joined forces with Levi Korsinsky to file a class action lawsuit against Nano (NANO) and the controversial BitGrail cryptocurrency exchange for allegedly defrauding investors according to a press release on January 7, 2018.
2019-1-9 17:00 | |