Why Pro-XRP Lawyer John Deaton Calls For Investigation Into SEC Chair Gary Gensler

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Ripple v. SEC: XRP Price Action Delayed Due to This, Former Lawyer Reveals

Exactly this crucial distinction is holding back XRP price action, argues Scott Chamberlain

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Binance Executives Lawyer Up Amid CFTC Lawsuit

Former Binance.US executive Catherine Coley hires Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer for CFTC suit.

The post Binance Executives Lawyer Up Amid CFTC Lawsuit appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Ripple v. SEC: Deaton Predicts Hinman Emails Will Be Made Public

Emails and speech drafts relating to former SEC official William Hinman could be made public, despite the regulator's request for them to remain sealed, according to crypto lawyer John Deaton

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Sam Bankman-Fried Lawyer Says Agreement Has Been Reached on Use of Messaging Apps

The former CEO of FTX was previously barred from using any messaging apps.

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Voyager Creditor and Lawyer Attempts to Force Trustee to Take Over Estate

A Voyager creditor and financial lawyer has filed a motion to have a trustee appointed to handle the crypto lender’s estate. And she's supported by lender's former CIO. The post Voyager Creditor and Lawyer Attempts to Force Trustee to Take Over Estate appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Former SEC chief blasts ‘bogus’ catchphrase: ‘Regulation by enforcement’

Lawyer and former SEC official John Reed Stark came out in defense of the SEC’s enforcement efforts in the crypto space.

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Former SEC Lawyer Says Agency Pushing to Be Crypto Regulator With Gemini/Genesis Suit

Howard Fischer says that the government agency’s probe into the crypto firms could be the precedent the agency needs as it looks to “stake out” its turf as the main regulator of the digital asset space.

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FTX’s former top lawyer cooperated with the US in Sam Bankman-Fried case

FTX’s former compliance chief, Daniel Friedberg, started working for Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017 and resigned from FTX days before the exchange collapsed.

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Former FTX’s top lawyer assists US authorities in SBF legal case

Daniel Friedberg, former FTX’s lawyer, is said to be helping the US authorities in the FTX case. He reportedly revealed the customers’ funds abuse to regulators. Daniel Friedberg collaborates with the US prosecutors In a recent investigation, Reuters has revealed…

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Ex-FTX Lawyer Cooperated With US Prosecutors, Reuters Reports, Citing Source Familiar

Former FTX lawyer Daniel Friedberg provided information on FTX at a meeting on Nov. 22 with the U.S. Justice Department, FBI and the SEC, the source said.

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Prosecutors unlikely to offer Sam Bankman-Fried a favorable plea deal, says lawyer

Former FTX CEO may not be able to offset the two counts of wire fraud and six counts of conspiracy he faces with the credits by entering a guilty plea.

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SEC wants to ‘kill’ crypto in the US, lawyer says

A former federal prosecutor and defense lawyer James K. Filan insists that the SEC does not want to regulate crypto, but wants to kill it in the United States. On Dec. 21, defense Attorney James K. Filan tweeted that the Securities and…

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Bankman-Fried Is a ‘Master of Deflection,’ Securities Lawyer Says

James Murphy, founder of law firm Murphy & McGonigle, discusses the former FTX CEO’s attempt at side-stepping probing questions and whether lawmakers in the U.S. have enough evidence to move forward with a criminal trial.

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Former SEC Lawyer Sees More Crypto Regulations After Celsius Network's Debacle

“This is going to lead to a real push for some significant regulation and oversight,” Moses & Singer LLP Partner Howard Fischer said on CoinDesk TV’s “All About Bitcoin.”

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Grayscale Taps Ex-Obama Lawyer to Argue Its Case Against SEC

Grayscale Investment LLC acquires a new secret weapon in the form of former solicitor-general Donald Verrilli, who worked in the Obama administration from 2011 to 2016. The post Grayscale Taps Ex-Obama Lawyer to Argue Its Case Against SEC appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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OpenSea ‘insider trading’ could see NFTs labeled securities: Former SEC lawyer

Former SEC lawyer says OpenSea insider trading case could end with NFTs labeled as securities.

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SEC looks to prevent Ripple from getting vital document about its case

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is unwilling to produce documents that show its former finance director, William Hinman, stated that Bitcoin and Ethereum were not securities, according to a tweet from James Filan, a lawyer representing Ripple.

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Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal Makes Argument For Reasonable Bitcoin Regulation

At Bitcoin 2022, Constitutional lawyer Neal Katyal argued that Bitcoiners should be open to some regulation to ultimately protect the technology.

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Former SEC Lawyer Claims Agency's Not Turning Back from Lawsuit Against Ripple

Former SEC lawyer Linda Jeng says she's disappointed by the agency's lawsuit against Ripple

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How The XRP Community Reply To The SEC’s “Shady” Move

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple Labs, and executives Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen seem to have taken a weird turn. According to the former federal prosecutor and defense lawyer James Filan, the Commission could have allegedly bypass certain rules to its benefit.

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Blockchain Software Company Hires Former Goldman Sachs Lawyer

O(1) Labs has hired Goldman Sachs' Sang Joon Kim after losing a legal battle with R3

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US Hopes to Confiscate $400M: DoJ Files Forfeiture Judgment Against Onecoin Launderer

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York (SDNY) court have submitted a “forfeiture money judgment” against the former attorney Mark Scott. The lawyer was charged with helping the Ponzi scheme Onecoin launder funds.

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Coinbase Taps Former Facebook Lawyer to Head Legal Team

Coinbase has hired Paul Grewal, former U.S. magistrate judge and Facebook legal alum, to lead the cryptocurrency exchange giant’s legal team.

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Former Coinbase Lawyer Becomes Head of Major US Bank Regulator Next Week

Brooks steps up to run the office after only seven weeks as deputy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment and More

Big Tech firms outlined the dangers of letting the US fall behind in strategic blockchain initiatives while a former Coinbase lawyer is moving to a top government seat.

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Former DOJ Lawyer Says Class Action Cases Will Benefit Crypto

A lawyer who recovered $25 billion for his clients explains why his firm has brought 12 class action lawsuits against crypto heavyweights.

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Former NASDAQ Lawyer Warns TON Against Going Rogue

Former NASDAQ counsel warns the TON Community against launching Telegram’s blockchain network until the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has its say

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6 Bankers Accused of Earning €30M in Bonuses From German Fraud, Tax Lawyer Out on €4M Bail

Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer, prosecutors in Frankfurt revealed this week. The case is part of multiple investigations carried out across Germany, the hardest hit country in a notorious tax fraud scandal known as the Cum-ex Files.

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Former Charlie Shrem Attorney to Represent Arrested Ethereum Dev

Trial attorney Brian Klein — erstwhile lawyer for Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees — will defend arrested blockchain developer Virgil Griffith

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Crypto Scam OneCoin’s Lawyer Found Guilty In $4 Billion Money Laundering Scheme

OneCoin’s lawyer, Mark S. Scott was found guilty of helping Co-Founder, Ruja Ignatova who remains at large, launder $400 million. As for his cut of the pie, news outlet, Coin Telegraph disclosed that it amounted to some $50 million.

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OneCoin Fugitive Cryptoqueen Allegedly Paid $50M to Lawyer to Launder Funds

Former Locke Lord LLP partner allegedly received $50 million to launder $400 million for OneCoin co-founder Ruja Ignatova

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Trial of Former OneCoin Lawyer Kicks Off In New York

The trial of an American lawyer accused of laundering money for the notorious OneCoin pyramid scheme, began in New York yesterday. The lawyer is the first of three key players in the scam to face trial.

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iAngels Focus on Crypto Adoption, Bringing New Investors to the Bitcoin World

Adoption is very important for the development of the crypto world. Fortunately, companies such as iAngels exist. Created by a software engineer, a former lawyer and a Wall Street trader, the company is focused on promoting the adoption of crypto and securing investments for blockchain startups at the same time that it educates traditional capitalists […]

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QuadrigaCX was the first exchange to hold cold storage insurance, claims exchange’s former lawyer

Christine Duhaime, a lawyer associated with Duhaime Law, the law firm once associated with the troubled QuadrigaCX, claimed that the late CEO Gerald Cotten shunned the “law and order folks”, i.

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Ex-QuadrigaCX Lawyer Exposes Bitcoin Exchange’s Descent into ‘Lawlessness’

By CCN. com: QuadrigaCX had a long and successful run as Canada’s top Bitcoin exchange. Former counsel to the exchange, Christine Duhaime, says in a blog post at Coindesk that the company was among the only exchanges to publicly publish audits or obtain cold storage insurance.

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Trump to Be Accused of Racism, Lies and Criminal Acts by Former Lawyer Michael Cohen

Editor’s Note 14:59 EST: The headline has been amended for clarity. Trump’s former personal lawyer is set to give a bombshell testimony in front of Congress. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney and fixer for 12 years until May 2018, could be about to open a can of worms on Wednesday that even Teflon Don cannot walk away from clean.

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Cyprus Court Drops Money Laundering & Fraud Charges In Lawsuit Against Defunct BTC-e Operator

A Lawyer operating behalf of Alexander Vinnik, an alleged former operator of the now defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, has made the statement that a district court in Court within Cyprus has officially withdrawn a lawsuit which operated under the charges of “of fraud, money laundering, and other crimes.” This was reported by RIA Novosti, the state […]

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Former CFTC Enforcement Lawyer Joins Perkins Coie Global Law Firm

Perkins Coie, the Washington-based international law firm that represents highly reputed organizations across a vast range of industries, has hired Kari Larsen, a former enforcement lawyer at the U. S Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to its Blockchain Technology & Digital Currency industry group and Investment Management practice, according to a press release  by the firm on November 6, 2018.

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Charlie Shrem Lawyer Says Winklevoss Twins Felony Lawsuit Claims Are ‘Erroneous’

A report by The New York Times reveals court details showing the brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss filed a civil suit against Shrem, alleging the former stole from the pair by not making full purchases as expected.

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Former BTC-e Exchange CEO Finds Trouble with France, Russia and Underwent a Fake Interrogation?

Former CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange, BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik has been accused and supposedly arrested by French investigators in what seemed like a falsified cross-examination. Vinnik’s lawyer, Timofey Musatov conveyed the event with news platform, Izvestiya on Thursday, August 30.

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Former SEC Lawyer Comments On Bitcoin ETF Decision Delay As Markets, Regulators Focuse On Crypto Custody

The US SEC announced yesterday that it would delay a decision on a proposed bitcoin ETF. The ruling, which will now be pushed back to September, will constitute a serious milestone on the path toward listing a bitcoin ETF while the topic of Bitcoin Custody and securing crypto holdings is also newsworthy.   Q2 hedge […]

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Sec Delays Yet Another Bitcoin ETF

The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), led by former bankers lawyer Jay Clayton (pictured above), has delayed an application by Cboe to list an ETF issued by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin. . .

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A "Good Start": U.S. Introduces Office of Innovation and Sandbox for Fintech

Fintech businesses struggling to stay inbounds of government rules may soon receive a dose of much-needed guidance via the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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‘Blockchain-Based Compliance Is The Future’

A leading blockchain-focused law firm believes that compliance will soon be baked in to the very blockchain systems that the companies are based on. Zach Fallon is a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer and is now the Principal at law firm Blakemore Fallon.

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Joan Laporta, lawyer and former president of FC Barcelona, joins Blockchain Technology Company Urbit Data

Joan Laporta has joined the Advisory Board of the company Urbit Data. This way, the company consolidates its growth strategy with a solid project with an enormous global projection. Urbit’s new consultant has stood out for many years for his successful and relevant career, both in the field of senior sports management and in his […] The post Joan Laporta, lawyer and former president of FC Barcelona, joins Blockchain Technology Company Urbit Data appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Op Ed: Utility Token? Why You’re Still Better Off as a Security

The SEC’s proclamation that ether (ETH) is not a security has sparked some celebration amongst the cryptocurrency community. Regulatory clarity is always a good thing, but ICO operators shouldn’t see this as a reason to put the champagne on ice.

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SEC Closes Debate on ICOs, Insists They Are Securities

Jay Clayton, former elite bankers’ lawyer now Chairman of the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), has effectively closed the debate on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as far as SEC is. .

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