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U.S. Department of Justice Crypto Enforcement Team Director Eun Young Choi said mixers cause a "multiplier effect" but aren't "necessarily" slowing investigations down.
2022-10-12 00:26 | |
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In response to U. S. President Joe Biden’s March executive order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, the U. S. Department of Justice released a new report on law enforcement’s role in the space.
2022-9-18 15:35 | |
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TriiiX, an AI strategic trading and copy trading crypto exchange, has secured a US Money Service Business (MSB) license. Issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U. S. Department of the Treasury, the license empowers the exchange to offer regulated financial services in the country.
2022-9-2 14:40 | |
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A former Coinbase employee and two co-conspirators are being charged by the Justice Department and the SEC in the first ever crypto insider trading scheme. Law enforcement claims the scheme...
2022-7-22 20:17 | |
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Coin Center filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department in federal district court — challenging the enforcement of Section 6050I’s reporting mandate.
2022-6-12 11:24 | |
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According to Reuters, the U.S. Justice Department has just appointed Eun Young Choi, an experienced computer crimes prosecutor to head its new national cryptocurrency enforcement department. This is according to an announcement on Thursday by Deputy Attorney general Lisa Monaco during the Munich Cyber Security Conference in Germany. Young is well known for his role […]
2022-2-18 20:24 | |
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According to Reuters, the U.S. Justice Department has just appointed Eun Young Choi, an experienced computer crimes prosecutor to head its new national cryptocurrency enforcement department. This is according to an announcement on Thursday by Deputy Attorney general Lisa Monaco during the Munich Cyber Security Conference in Germany. Young is well known for his role […]
2022-2-17 20:24 | |
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The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the law enforcement authorities have captured a married couple linked to the Bitfinex crypto exchange hack incident in 2016. The married couple, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his Wife Heather Morgan 31 were arrested by US law enforcement and are accused of allegedly trying to launder Bitcoin funds […] The post US Department of Justice nabs couple for allegedly trying to launder $3.
2022-2-9 14:19 | |
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The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the law enforcement authorities have captured a married couple linked to the Bitfinex crypto exchange hack incident in 2016. The post US Department of Justice nabs couple for allegedly trying to launder $3.
2022-2-10 14:19 | |
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It has been no secret that the top federal law enforcement agency under the U. S Department of Treasury, the Criminal Investigation Division (CI), is keenly following digital assets to trace for any signals of illicit activity.
2020-7-3 15:02 | |
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration failed to adequately police its undercover agents’ handling of cryptocurrency, a Department of Justice Inspector General report found.
2020-6-18 20:06 | |
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The Office of Foreign Assets and Control (OFAC) the enforcement body of the U. S. Treasury Department, sanctioned two Chinese nationals who played a part in laundering illicit funds linked to a crypto exchange hack.
2020-3-4 20:00 | |
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In an announcement dated February 3, 2020, the U. S. Marshals Service (USMS) – a federal law enforcement agency within the U. S. Department of Justice – stated that it would be auctioning more than 4,000 Bitcoin (BTC).
2020-2-5 02:00 | |
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Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive policing systems. The machine learning equivalent of psychic detectives, it turns out, simply doesn’t work.
2019-7-9 01:08 | |
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Calibra, the Facebook subsidiary that will develop the Libra wallet, has registered as a money services business with the US Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network, applied for US money transfer licenses, and has now begun the process to receive the coveted BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services.
2019-7-2 22:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price rocketed past $10,000 for the first time since 2018, and crypto fans are celebrating. But they’re not the only ones noticing the budding cryptocurrency bull market.
2019-6-24 18:45 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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US regulatory agency FinCEN released new guidance on whether certain crypto businesses are regulated as money services businesses. Those who qualify fall under the scope of the agency and must comply with (sometimes costly) regulations that clash with user privacy.
2019-5-10 01:52 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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New York’s Police Department (NYPD) is alerting the public about phone scammers posing as Social Security Administration officials and requesting payment in Bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, and bank wire transfers.
2019-5-2 13:05 | |
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After first issuing cryptocurrency guidance back in 2013, enforcement by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been out of the headlines in recent years. Now the bureau of the US Department of the Treasury is back on the bitcoin beat and taking action — dishing out a hefty fine to a prolific bitcoin trader accused of wilfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to register as an exchange.
2019-4-25 16:00 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
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A 22-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin through an unlicensed money transmitting business. Jacob Burrell Campos, who had been in custody without bail since he was arrested in August last year, was also forced to forfeit $823,357 in illicit profits.
2019-4-9 13:04 | |
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KYC Policies And Crypto Exchanges KYC, also known as Know Your Customer, is a type of policy issued by the Department of Treasury and enforced by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network that cryptocurrency exchanges are required to abide by.
2019-3-28 20:35 | |
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A bill proposed by the Texas legislature will require that all receivers of cryptocurrency in regular transactions verify the identity of the cryptocurrency sender before accepting any payment.
2019-3-12 01:04 | |
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The United States has an unclear stance towards cryptocurrency. Despite that unclear stance, however, one major U. S. regulatory authority is urging the rest of the world to follow the country’s lead in crypto enforcement.
2018-12-5 00:54 | |
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U.S. Treasury Department Under Secretary Sigal Mandelker called for global efforts to police malicious actors' use of cryptocurrencies.
2018-12-4 20:15 | |
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The U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its 2019 fiscal year pre-solicitation document. Throughout the 27-page letter, the organization explains that it wants to dedicate resources toward creating blockchain forensic applications that can analyze privacy-centric digital asset movements.
2018-12-4 05:50 | |
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Mexican startup Airtm will launch a campaign to raise donations for Venezuelans, a country whose poor monetary policies have plagued it with hyperinflation. Called the AirdropVenezuela.
2018-11-28 19:29 | |
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The North Dakota Securities Department, responsible for the enforcement of the securities laws in the U. S. state, has issued a cease and desist order against Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC) for allegedly promoting a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).
2018-11-21 00:00 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-20 22:58 | |
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With iOS 12, Apple has thwarted the GrayKey device that can unlock criminal suspects’ iPhones for law enforcement, reports Forbes. The report claims that GrayKey now can only do a “partial extraction” of the data on a locked iPhone running the latest version of Apple’s software.
2018-10-25 16:15 | |
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Ever since the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a stern warning about initial coin offerings (ICOs) in February 2018, cryptocurrency projects have had to consider different options for distributing their tokens — and funding their development.
2018-10-20 19:31 | |
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The U. S. Marshals agency has announced plans to auction $4. 3 million worth of bitcoin (BTC) in November 2018. The sealed bid auction is for nearly 660 bitcoins which were seized in a series of federal criminal, administrative and civil cases over the years.
2018-10-19 20:51 | |
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The New York Attorney General’s office has pointed a finger at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken for “potential” violation of state regulations. Now, the San Francisco–based exchange is firing back, saying it does not appreciate what it sees as implications of illegality.
2018-9-21 18:10 | |
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FinCEN is an important part of the US Department of Treasury that helps in the enforcement of financial rules both domestically and abroad. Its director, Kenneth Blanco, believes that cryptocurrencies show us both the sides of innovation — better services and increased criminal activity.
2018-8-14 17:00 | |
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Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has apparently piqued the interest of the Investor Protection Unit of the Delaware Department of Justice (DOJ). The IPU is specifically responsible for enforcing provisions of the Delaware Securities Act and the the Rules and Regulations Pursuant to the Act.
2018-7-25 07:38 | |
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This week, the U. S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies banded together to bring down some bad actors on the dark web. EOS is undergoing some growing pains with the launch of its network, exposing the trials and tribulations of an all-too-centralized governance model.
2018-6-30 20:56 | |
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The U. S. Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service (USSS), the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have apprehended more than 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers in a nation-wide bust.
2018-6-27 20:26 | |
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The United States law enforcement agencies revealed a large network of drug and arms dealers, who operated in the darknet.
2018-6-27 15:36 | |
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Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, could be released on Friday, two days ahead of his scheduled release date of September 29th (Sunday), according to an interpretation of the law.
A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators is questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland about the "unprecedented interpretation" of law the Department of Justice (DOJ) is using to pursue cryptocurrency software services as unlicensed money-transmitting businesses.
Binance's founder and former chief executive, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has apologised for his "poor decisions" and accepted "full responsibility" for his actions, in a letter to the judge overseeing his case.
According to the latest report, Binance Holdings Ltd. will pay one of the largest corporate penalties in United States history after a judge approved the company’s plea agreement. This comes months after the cryptocurrency exchange and its former CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering infringements, bringing a close to a long-term […]
U.S. argues that Binance's former CEO should remain free until sentencing – but only in the U.S.
U.S. argues that Binance's former CEO should remain free until sentencing – but only in the U.S.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, CZ could receive a 12-18 month sentence, but the Department of Justice is willing to fight for a longer term.