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A federal prosecutor let slip that the Department of Justice is still mulling charges against Dragonfly’s Tom Schmidt, before promptly asking the court to seal the comment.
2025-7-26 01:30 | |
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The U.S. government recently announced charges against 5 Russian nationals and two oil traders for breaching sanctions. According to reports, the accused persons used crypto assets in sanction evading to fund Russia in the war against Ukraine. The U.S. Charges…
2022-10-20 19:00 | |
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The SEC freezes the assets that belong to the owners of a fraudulent cryptocurrency hedge fund
2020-6-20 21:15 | |
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A “court motion to dismiss,” filed by Ripple Inc. to the United States District Court in Northern California on June 8, aims to dismiss the charges faced by the CEO, Brad Garlinghouse. The motion aims at removing three accounts of fraud by the plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, which did not show how Garlinghouse was purportedly fraudulent […]
2020-6-10 20:46 | |
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Manhattan prosecutors from the New York Southern District Court (NYSD) have unsealed indictment charges against Onecoin cofounder Sebastian Greenwood. The documents allege that Greenwood, alongside his accomplices Ruja Ignatova the ‘Crypto Queen’ and her brother Konstantin Ignatov, committed fraud on a multi-billion dollar level.
2020-4-13 03:00 | |
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Charges against Maduro and other Venezuelan heads don’t involve crypto directly, three different lawyers say
2020-3-28 21:30 | |
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After breaking down the charges against Larry Harmon, legal experts Sasha Hodder and Rafael Yakobi examine the case for bitcoin privacy and fungibility. The post Bitcoin Fungibility, Mixing and the Legal Limits on Maintaining Privacy appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-3-18 15:36 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against an Ohio-based businessman, Michael W. Ackerman on Tuesday who allegedly orchestrated a cryptocurrency scheme to defraud about 150 investors including many physicians.
2020-2-13 00:27 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against a man for allegedly swindling 150 investors in an elaborate crypto trading scam
2020-2-13 12:26 | |
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What’s next for suspected Bitcoin money launderer Alexander Vinnik as French authorities slam money laundering and conspiracy charges against him?
2020-2-8 01:00 | |
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OneCoin associate Mark Scott was charged with two counts of money laundering totaling $400 million. Now, one of the enablers of Crypto’s biggest scam wants the charges against him dropped. OneCoin Aide Claims ‘Insufficient’ Evidence Mark Scott was found guilty by a jury last November of two counts of money laundering (wire fraud and bank fraud) for OneCoin and its elusive founder Ruja Ignatova totaling $400 million.
2020-2-5 16:00 | |
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The Seoul Southern District Court has acquitted senior executives at Upbit crypto exchange of fraud charges. Insufficient Evidence Against Upbit Chiefs Delivering judgment on the matter, Deputy Judge Oh Sang-yong dismissed the 30-count criminal fraud and market manipulation charges leveled against the Upbit directors for lack of evidence.
2020-2-1 18:00 | |
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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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The U. S. government has formally brought up charges against Virgil Griffith, a former researcher and scientist at the Ethereum Foundation. Griffith ran into trouble for traveling to North Korea to attend a crypto and blockchain conference after having been denied permission to travel by the U.
2020-1-9 16:00 | |
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While no one would deny the crypto sector has its fair share of ne'er do wells and general malfeasance, it was trusted legacy brands that stood out during the year for the sheer scale of their transgressions and related fines
2020-1-4 14:01 | |
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U. S. law enforcement filed in November criminal charges against Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith because he traveled to North Korea and taught “his audience how to use blockchain technology.
2019-12-30 20:38 | |
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An investigation launched on the request of a French startup has led to the indictment of a 37-year-old entrepreneur accused of stealing 182 BTC from the company he cofounded. Embezzlement of money is one the charges brought against him by the public prosecutor’s office in Paris.
2019-12-30 04:46 | |
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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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The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time to process an acquittal motion.
2019-12-11 22:30 | |
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A U. S. judge has ruled that Coinbase must face negligence charges over its actions around the launch of Bitcoin Cash trading. However, the majority of claims against the company, including those of fraud and unfair competition, were thrown out.
2019-8-8 15:00 | |
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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 | |
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Прокуратура Южного округа Нью-Йорка выдвинула обвинения Хью Брайану Хани в отмывании денег, вырученных от продажи наркотиков на даркнет-маркетплейсе Silk Road. Сотрудники Министерства внутренней безопасности США полагают, что Хани мог быть администратором крупного поставщика незаконных препаратов Pharmville.
2019-7-19 19:38 | |
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By CCN Markets: Renwick Haddow, the operator of the fake crypto trading platform Bitcoin Store and the fraudulent shared office space Bar Works, admitted to the charges against him with one of his fellow collaborators found guilty by US court.
2019-6-18 17:42 | |
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Karpeles believes that it will take a minimum of up to 10 years before a resolution for the Mt. Gox scandal can be arrived upon. The ex-Mt. Gox CEO is currently serving a 2.5 years suspended jail sentence in relation to the various charges that were levied against him back in 2015. As many of […]
2019-6-17 17:22 | |
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The SEC has filed charges of fraud against purported blockchain-related firm Longfin Corp
2019-6-6 00:30 | |
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The SEC filed fresh fraud charges against Longfin Corp. on Wednesday, alleging the company falsified its accounting. Longfin's stock price jumped after it announced a crypto pivot in 2017.
2019-6-6 23:30 | |
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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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United States authorities have brought criminal charges against a LocalBitcoins trader in connection with operating an unlicensed money transmission business
2019-5-29 10:53 | |
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Binance CEO CZ is filing charges against Sequoia Capital for hurting his reputation and preventing him from attracting investors’ money at high valuations
2019-5-23 12:34 | |
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OneCoin, the alleged Ponzi scheme, may have finally come to an end as a U. S. lawsuit indicting its founders and $4 billion revenues becomes formal. OneCoin: Class Action Demand By $103K Investor A class action document filed May 7 at the US Southern District Court of New York brings multiple charges against four executives behind OneCoin: brother and sister duo Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, Sebastian Greenwood and Mark Scott.
2019-5-9 16:00 | |
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Tesla this week sent an email to employees warning about the impact of on-going press leaks. The email reminded employees that each of them signed confidentiality agreements, warning the company would take action against those it felt were in violation, including “termination of employment, claims for damages, and even criminal charges.
2019-5-4 03:36 | |
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By CCN: The cast of “Empire” is asking that their “brother” Jussie Smollett be welcomed back into the cast of the Fox drama next season. Smollett had recently been written out of the current season’s finale, but his fellow actors are begging Disney to bring him back.
2019-4-26 01:01 | |
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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 | |
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Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks and early Bitcoin supporter, was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and faces extradition to the U. S. on conspiracy charges.
2019-4-12 19:27 | |
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Disgraced alleged hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett is finally learning what most entertainers understand by the end of their first acting class: you won’t ever live down a bad performance. Jussie Smollett Flunks out of $130,000 Audition After allegedly staging a phony hate crime on himself, Smollett tried desperately to play the role of “an innocent man” for Chicago lawmakers.
2019-4-7 16:00 | |
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Prosecutors have opted to not appeal against the acquittal of former Mt. Gox CEO, Mark Karpeles, on charges of customer embezzlement, reports Japanese daily The Mainichi, March 29, 2019. Breathing Room for Mark Karpeles Ex-Mt.
2019-3-30 10:00 | |
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Mark Karpeles, CEO of the now-defunct seminal bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox is looking to appeal his conviction on data manipulation charges leveled against him earlier this month by a Tokyo District Court, according to reports published on March 29, 2019.
2019-3-30 00:07 | |
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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 | |
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Tokyo prosecutors have reportedly dropped plans to appeal the acquittal of former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on charges of embezzlement
2019-3-29 04:30 | |
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By CCN. com: In yet another shocking twist to the Chicago hate crime scandal, President Trump has asked the Justice Department and the FBI to review the recent criminal case of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
2019-3-29 22:41 | |
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Japanese authorities in the city of Utsunomiya have charged an 18-year-old for stealing crypto from Monappy, a digital wallet service for MonaCoin. The unnamed teenager was reportedly referred to prosecutors in what is the country’s first case of charges being brought against a cryptocurrency hacker.
2019-3-18 02:08 | |
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The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
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The way to bitcoin-utopia is laden with regulatory issues and scam artists. In a recent confession, Morgan Rockoons the founder of Bitcointopia and a well-known crypto activist has conceded to both charges against him in two bitcoin-related cases.
2019-3-10 22:08 | |
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On March 6th, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OneCoin ringleader Konstantin Ignatov at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The government alleges that he was one of several masterminds behind the multi-billion dollar crypto pyramid scheme.
2019-3-9 04:30 | |
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If you search the web for “My Big Coin,” you find a lot of seemingly-legitimate results. Even Crunchbase has a listing for My Big Coin. As recently as Valentine’s Day, the cryptocurrency project was tweeting to their more than 260,000 followers.
2019-2-28 22:50 | |
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Gladius Network will refund investors who request it and register its tokens as securities after settling "unregistered ICO" charges with the SEC.
2019-2-20 19:45 | |
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The job of a top lawyer at Apple Inc. was to ensure that no employees violate the company’s insider-trading policies. It turned out that he was the one who was trading Apple Shares illegally, according to US regulators.
2019-2-16 11:50 | |
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If you’ve been following cryptocurrency news the past week, then you must have heard of the Florida Localbitcoins trader who is now facing felony charges for money laundering and running an illegal money service business.
2019-2-9 23:29 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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An appellate court in the U.S. state of Florida has reinstated felony charges against a man who allegedly sold Bitcoin to an undercover detective
2019-2-1 22:28 | |
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PLUS: The tragicomedy of Sam Bankman-Fried continued on Friday with the revocation of his bail. Even before the decision, CoinDesk columnist David Morris explained why the decision was predictable.
Ripple's partial victory over the Securities and Exchange Commission pushed up the layer 1 and altcoin market, as many of these tokens had been accused of being securities.
The world’s largest digital asset isn’t budging and it'll take regulatory clarity to push past $30,000.
PLUS: A decrease in bitcoin supply active a year ago indicates that long-term holders have reduced their bitcoin exposure. Is hodling starting to wane?
PLUS: A decrease in bitcoin supply active a year ago indicates that long-term holders have reduced their bitcoin exposure. Is hodling starting to wane?
PLUS: A spot bitcoin ETF may be in the offing, and crypto prices are unpredictable, but MicroStrategy "still fills a need in the marketplace," the president of crypto asset fund ProChain Capital told CoinDesk TV.
An exploit of stablecoin exchange Curve Sunday could jeopardize more than $100 million in cryptocurrency. PLUS: What's behind Russia's mining boom?