2020-9-4 00:51 |
50-year-old Joseph Abel pleaded guilty to securities and tax related offenses. origin »
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26-year-old Bryan Connor Herrell from Colorado, the former moderator of the AlphaBay darknet market place has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to a Tuesday announcement by the US Department of Justice, Connor Herrell pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to AlphaBay.
2020-9-3 01:07 | |
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John Michael Musbach, of Haddonfield, New Jersey pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child by sexual contact. He was then sentenced in 2018 and the case was considered to be over. But there was more to the story.
2020-8-14 23:24 | |
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Michael Ackerman pleaded not guilty to one count of wire fraud for his involvement in the Q3 investment club that allegedly defrauded 150 investors.
2020-8-13 16:10 | |
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Graham Ivan Clark, the 17-year old Florida teenager accused of being the main culprit of the most significant privacy breach in Twitter’s history, has pleaded not guilty on all 30 counts he has been charged with, reported Tempa.
2020-8-6 19:22 | |
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The 17-year-old charged with being the mastermind behind July's Twitter hack has pleaded not guilty; the defense says bail posted is "grossly inappropriate" to the amount of money stolen.
2020-8-6 20:36 | |
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On Tuesday, during a court hearing in Hillsborough Circuit Court, the “mastermind” of the Twitter hack pleaded not guilty.
2020-8-5 13:46 | |
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One of four men charged with defrauding investors of over $722 million through a long-running cryptomining scheme has pleaded guilty to charges against him.
2020-7-11 12:22 | |
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The co-founder of the Infraud Organization pleaded guilty to racketeering charges before a U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada.
2020-6-29 01:00 | |
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A co-founder of the celebrity-backed Centra Tech crypto scam has pleaded guilty to his role in the $25 million fraudulent ICO.
2020-6-17 21:44 | |
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The American pleaded guilty to deceiving 70,000 people who invested in his fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes. In total, he managed to get about $ 147 million from defrauded investors. According to the Department of Justice, US citizen Steve Chen pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fraud, as well as tax evasion. From July 2013 to September 2015, […]
2020-2-24 10:50 | |
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Gemcoin founder Steve Chen appeared in court and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and tax evasion. He and other perpetrators duped some 70,000 unsuspecting individuals out of a cool $147 million to invest in USFIA.
2020-2-20 20:34 | |
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On January 30, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) revealed that Roger Clark, the alleged senior advisor to the Silk Road marketplace, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics.
2020-2-3 04:25 | |
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Former Ethereum Foundation member, Virgil Griffith has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges filed against him by the U. S. Attorney’s office. Griffith who is accused of aiding North Korea in evading sanctions faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if found guilty.
2020-1-31 18:00 | |
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Roger Clark, an alleged operator behind the Silk Road darknet site arrested in 2015, has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
2020-1-31 03:15 | |
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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act on Thursday.
2020-1-31 23:05 | |
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Crypto Capital co-founder Reginald Fowler pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business Friday. Additional charges were dropped.
2020-1-18 23:15 | |
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Karem Albayrak, a self-proclaimed hacker who somehow got access to 300 million iPhones, pleaded guilty to blackmailing Apple. 150 Iphone Accounts Deleted Per Minute Back in March 2017, The Hacker News and many other news media published reports of a hacker threatening to remotely wipe 300 million iPhones, unless Apple pays the ransom.
2019-12-23 14:49 | |
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Eran Eyal, Shopin CEO, pleaded guilty today to charges of conducting an unregistered securities offering in an ICO that raised over $42 million. The SEC announced charges against Eyal in a Wednesday press release.
2019-12-13 05:53 | |
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A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies
2019-8-8 00:45 | |
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A California-based couple will have to forfeit their cryptocurrency riches after pleading guilty to running a dark web drug operation ring. Jabari Monson, 32, of Merced, California pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute controlled substances.
2019-8-7 11:04 | |
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A contract programmer has pleaded guilty to planting “logic bombs” inside a client’s spreadsheets in an attempt to receive extra work from the company every time the software crashed. David Tinley — the Pennsylvania-based 62-year-old contract programmer in question — now faces a fine of up to $250,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both.
2019-7-25 12:25 | |
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A woman accused of running a Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring pleaded guilty on Tuesday after authorities busted the operation last year. Among other charges, Sarah Alberts, 35, who is due to be sentenced on October 8, admitted to money laundering, reports say.
2019-7-3 13:24 | |
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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 | |
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The operator of the CabbageTech cryptocurrency investment scheme has pleaded guilty to wire fraud
2019-6-24 19:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: A scammer that called himself the “coyote of Wall Street” has admitted to telling clients he would invest their money in cryptocurrency only to keep it for himself. Patrick McDonnell, a 46-year-old from Staten Island in New York, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Friday.
2019-6-24 14:55 | |
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A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V.
2019-6-13 12:34 | |
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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 | |
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On May 28th, Konstantin Ignatov attended the preliminary hearing after the Department of Justice (DOJ) had charged him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in March. Ignatov was charged for his role as the leader on the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
2019-6-1 21:30 | |
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By CCN: A Nevadan who has been accused of wire fraud as well as operating an unlicensed money transmitting service using bitcoin has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Morgan Rocknoons, who also goes by the name Morgan Rockwell, had earlier pleaded guilty to both charges.
2019-5-29 14:16 | |
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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 | |
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A man in the US has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for purchasing, downloading, and concealing child abuse imagery he got on the dark web and paid for with Bitcoin. According to court documents, starting in May 2017, Stephen P.
2019-5-17 13:55 | |
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By CCN: Callaway Crain and Mark Sanchez recently pleaded guilty to money laundering in New York. Investigators allege the pair earned close to $3 million selling steroids and controlled substances, mostly in bitcoin.
2019-4-25 23:15 | |
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In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
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Two men accused of illicitly selling steroids and controlled substances and laundering millions of dollars have pleaded guilty in New York
2019-4-24 15:19 | |
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Two US men have pleaded guilty to running a steroid and controlled substance business that laundered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency and Western Union payments. Representing the first conviction for money laundering involving cryptocurrency by New York State prosecutors, the defendants sold their products, which they made, marketed, and shipped, on a website they controlled called ‘NextDayGear,’ as well as on the dark web.
2019-4-24 12:58 | |
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Joel Ortiz, the 21-year-old student who was accused of stealing over $7. 5 million in digital assets via a SIM swapping operation, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2019-4-23 15:27 | |
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A 21-year-old man in the US, who is credited with being one of the first people in the country to be convicted of stealing cryptocurrency by hacking a victim’s mobile phone, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
2019-4-23 10:24 | |
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By CCN: Earlier this week, actress Lori Loughlin pleaded not guilty to her alleged role in the college admissions scandal whose exposure rocked both Hollywood and higher education. Now, an unsold TV pilot has emerged that eerily foreshadowed her shocking arrest – even if it didn’t predict the details.
2019-4-16 18:32 | |
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Two Romanian residents have been convicted of infecting over 400,000 individual computers with malware in order to mine cryptocurrency and steal victims’ data to sell on the dark web. Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, were convicted by a US jury following a 12-day trial of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit service marks, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and 12 counts each of wire fraud.
2019-4-12 15:31 | |
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As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
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A Canadian judge has ordered the forfeiture of approximately $1. 4 million in Bitcoin found on a drug dealer’s computer as part of a criminal investigation. On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly ordered that 281.
2019-4-4 11:48 | |
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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 | |
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An ICO fraud case has concluded with a guilty plea. Jared Rice Sr. , the former CEO of decentralized bank startup AriseBank and creator of the AriseCoin, has pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $4.
2019-3-23 16:35 | |
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The CEO of AriseBank has pleaded guilty to scamming $4. 2 million from hundreds of investors. Jared Rice Sr. was initially looking at over 120 years behind bars for all the charges he faced. However, according to a report by Dallas News, he only faces 20 years for one count of securities fraud.
2019-3-22 01:48 | |
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Jared Rice, former AriseBank CEO, pleaded guilty to securities fraud and could face as much as 20 years in prison.
2019-3-22 01:15 | |
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AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, who faced 120 years in prison for defrauding investors of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scam, has pleaded guilty. The cryptopreneur plead guilty yesterday morning after standing in front of judges in Texas, local outlet Dallas News reports.
2019-3-21 17:54 | |
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Netherlands seems to be the place to operate elaborate Bitcoin ransom schemes from. A man who extorted over $150,000 from several online services by DdoSing them and submitting a ransom request pleaded guilty last month and admitted wrongdoing.
2019-3-19 02:00 | |
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Robert Kraft — the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots — is facing up to a year in jail, a $5,000 fine, and 100 hours of mandatory community service for allegedly soliciting prostitution at a Florida massage parlor in January 2019.
2019-3-13 18:24 | |
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In the past two years, countless investors have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to crypto-related scams, unfortunately so. In San Diego, California, one such perpetrator faces 25 years in prison for his crime.
2019-3-10 13:10 | |
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U.S. authorities have arrested three members of BitClub Network, alleging the mining pool is a long-running Ponzi scheme.