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The CFTC has filed manipulation charges against Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg. Eisenberg is currently in custody and is facing criminal charges previously filed by the U. S. DoJ. origin »
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) filed parallel charges against two organizations. They are Bermuda-based Arbitrade Ltd and Canada-baseThe post This latest pump-and-dump scheme left SEC, OSC to file fraud charges appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-10-1 18:30 | |
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The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued and set charges of 1 million USD as a monetary penalty against Friedman LLP, the former auditing firm of Tether. Although the stablecoin issuer Tether hired the same auditing company from May 2017 to January 2018, the case filed last week does not count it. It has […]
2022-9-28 01:52 | |
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Members of the cryptocurrency industry are riling up against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after the agency filed a civil enforcement action against Ooki DAO.
2022-9-28 17:06 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed and settled charges last week against Friedman LLP, the former auditing firm of stablecoin issuer Tether, finding “serial violations of the federal securities laws” and numerous instances of “improper professional conduct,” according to an order published Monday.
2022-9-27 20:22 | |
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and settled charges last week against a blockchain protocol and its founders, but its the subsequent lawsuit against a decentralized autonomous organization that could have an enormous ripple effect on the crypto industry.
2022-9-26 17:01 | |
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KeyFi founder and CEO Jason Stone in early July filed suit against Celsius, accusing his former employer of market manipulation, among other charges.
2022-8-24 19:29 | |
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Former OpenSea sea executive Nate Chastain has filed a motion asking a United States district court to dismiss insider trading charges levied against him because non-fungible tokens (NFTs) do not meet the requirements for wired fraud charges.
2022-8-23 14:50 | |
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Former OpenSea employee Nate Chastain, whom the Department of Justice has charged on counts of insiderNFT trading, wire fraud, and money laundering, has filed a motion to dismiss the indictment...
2022-8-23 20:50 | |
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The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against an Ohia man and his companies for misappropriating more than $12 million from customers in a cryptocurrency-fueled Ponzi scheme.
2022-8-13 19:09 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has filed charges against 11 individuals in connection with a fraudulent crypto project that raised over $300 million from investors across the world.
2022-8-2 20:53 | |
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The United States Department of Justice has filed charges in four separate cases against the Baller Ape Club. It is currently undertaking four separate cases, with six individuals being charged with different crimes.
2022-7-1 17:30 | |
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against Gemini alleging that the exchange filed false or misleading statements relating to its bitcoin futures product.
2022-6-4 13:30 | |
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On June 1, the US Department of Justice filed its first-ever charges for insider trading in Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It could indicate that the government is prepared to treat NFTs similarly to traditional financial products.
2022-6-3 08:44 | |
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The US Department of Justice has filed charges against a former product manager at leading NFT marketplace OpenSea for wire fraud and money laundering in what the DoJ called the “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.
2022-6-3 00:50 | |
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The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action against an Oregon and Illinois resident, as well as a Florida company for a $44 million fraud that began as early as January 2021. The post CFTC Charges Oregon and Illinois Residents and Florida Company in $44 Million Misappropriation appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-5-22 00:30 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put a hurdle on Ripple’s way to getting charges against them dropped. On April 19th, 2022, the Commission filed a joint status report at the Eastern District of Virginia to delay the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation proceedings.
2022-4-23 21:36 | |
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A year ago, on Wednesday, the SEC filed legal action against Ripple on charges of selling unregistered securities. The post Ripple CEO blasts the SEC on one-year anniversary of lawsuit appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-12-23 17:30 | |
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed and settled charges against Bitfinex and sister company Tether. The two firms are required to pay fines totaling almost $43 million. CFTC claimed that the Tether (USDT) stablecoin was not completely backed by reserves most of the time and Bitfinex breached the derivatives regulator’s previous directive, according […]
2021-10-16 00:52 | |
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The top financial regulator in the US has filed a civil lawsuit against the… The post Hunt for BitConnect founder continues following latest SEC charges appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-9-3 14:24 | |
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Since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against Ripple Labs, the blockchain firm has had some legal victories. The latest win is no different. Judge Sarah Netburn of the District Court of New York has denied the SEC's request for documents related to Ripple's lobbying efforts.
2021-6-16 16:05 | |
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Over the past few months, ever since the United States Securities and Exchange Commission first filed charges against Ripple Labs, "small victories" have been hard to come by for the regulatory agencyThe post XRP lawsuit: Court's latest ruling means the case is going to end... here's when? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-15 21:00 | |
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In an abrupt turn of events, top Ripple executives have asked that the SEC case with all charges be completely dropped. As a result, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen have filed separate motions to dismiss the SEC lawsuit.
2021-4-14 18:18 | |
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The New York attorney general and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have filed charges against a cryptocurrency trading platform that allegedly defrauded thousands of investors out of over a million dollars.
2021-2-19 05:30 | |
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A U. S. federal judge has rejected a motion filed by a former Ethereum Foundation developer over allegations of assisting North Korea to bypass sanctions. Prosecutors claim, Virgil Griffith, aided the regime by providing critical information on cryptocurrencies.
2021-1-30 17:00 | |
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Ripple Labs officially answered the charges laid against it by the SEC on Dec. 23. The company filed its rebuttal with the U. S. Southern District of New York federal court on Jan. 29. The SEC claims that Ripple Labs and its current and former CEOs Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen sold $1.
2021-1-31 16:54 | |
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In Brief The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) filed charges on Dec. 23 against Ripple Labs and two top executives. The company, co-founder and ex-CEO Christian Larsen, and current CEO Brad Garlinghouse are charged with raising $1.
2021-1-9 20:27 | |
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The legal battle between Ripple and investors continues to poodle ahead. The latest development is a filing by the San Francisco-headquartered blockchain payments firm asking the court to dismiss the fraud charges put forward by the plaintiff on the account of lack of evidence to support the said claims.
2020-6-10 17:50 | |
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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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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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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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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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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 | |
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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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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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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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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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Boeing’s woes are stacking up. The latest blow? A class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders on Tuesday that charges that the airline defrauded them for not informing them of technical deficiencies of their ill-fated plane.
2019-4-10 21:57 | |
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One of the operators of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange and leading suspect in multi-billion money laundering scandal, Alexander Vinnik, is seeking to be extradited to Russia from Greece rather than to the United States or France.
2019-3-23 21:40 | |
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Stefanos Papanastasiou, a 39-year-old cryptocurrency trader who claimed to have developed an algorithm that could result in immense profit through crypto trading, is currently facing a lawsuit filed by Savvas “Sam” Alexiadis, a property developer.
2019-3-21 06:00 | |
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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 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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In Rancho Cordova of California, a local nurse has been apprehended by authorities, who have charged her with the sale of illegal narcotics, performed through markets on the dark web. The police allege that the nurse’s name was Farmacy41, and she managed to spread the sales through three markets, raking in over 200 BTC. The […]
2019-1-30 01:39 | |
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The plaintiff in a $224M lawsuit against wireless carrier AT&T has turned his attention to a new target. Michael Terpin’s legal team have filed a second suit, this time against 21-year-old Nicholas Truglia, dubbed the “bitcoin bandit” by the New York press.
2019-1-19 23:00 | |
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South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit, faces criminal charges after top executives were formally indicted by the country’s legal prosecutors, as reported by Business Korea on December 21, 2018.
2018-12-23 02:16 | |
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The lawsuit against alleged Btc-e operator Alexander Vinnik for “fraud, money laundering, and other grave crimes” filed in Cyprus has reportedly been dropped. His lawyer says the case “fell apart at the very early stage” at the initiative of the plaintiffs themselves.
2018-11-29 11:30 | |
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The U. S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges in the first-ever case involving a decentralized Ethereum-based exchange. The head of the SEC’s new cyber unit has followed with a warning that decentralized exchanges must be compliant as well, adding that creators will be held responsible.
2018-11-11 05:00 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.
2018-11-3 00:33 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a new office to engage with cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. Called the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub), the division will make it easier for fintech startups to interact with the regulator on related issues and the legal implications of products before they launch them.
2018-10-19 01:51 | |
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Strategy director Jarrod Patten has sold another 1,500 MSTR shares as the company’s stock has fallen to a fresh 52-week low and investor scrutiny over its Bitcoin treasury strategy has intensified.
SpaceX shares have drawn a fair value estimate of $63 from Morningstar even as bullish forecasts have pushed price targets as high as $190 following the company’s public market debut. According to a Wall Street Journal report, analysts at Morningstar…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have come under renewed macro scrutiny after reports indicated that the Bank of Japan is preparing to raise its benchmark interest rate to 1.0% from 0.75% at its June 15–16 policy meeting. Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei…
Greece has prepared plans for a 15% cryptocurrency capital gains tax as officials move to bring digital assets into the country’s tax system. According to a report, Greece’s Finance Ministry is drafting legislation that would impose a 15% tax on…
Investors turn to HYPE and XRP funds while dumping bitcoin and ether ETFs.
Key Takeaways: Vitalik Buterin believes the Ethereum Foundation is shrinking and decentralizing. Empowering decentralization, privacy, security, and censorship resistance will be the core areas of the Foundation’s activities.
A new report shows Hyperliquid is rapidly expanding beyond crypto into pre-IPO markets, prediction contracts, and 24/7 asset trading, putting Wall Street giants on high alert.