2023-5-30 11:13 |
Lawyers for the disgraced exchange executive filed pre-trial motions in early May to dismiss most of the charges on technicalities or procedural issues.
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A lawyer for the accused reportedly said he admits "the facts of the prosecution," during a May 25 trial hearing.
2023-5-26 12:09 | |
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The U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Nevada man for his participation in a cryptocurrency scheme called CoinDeal on May 19. The DOJ said that Nevada resident Bryan Lee conspired with CoinDeal leader Neil Chandran to defraud investors through Chandran’s companies.
2023-5-20 00:43 | |
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Criminal extortion charges against Steven Nerayoff, an early adviser to the Ethereum network, were dismissed by a New York judge on May 5, ending a three-and-a-half year legal battle that included explosive allegations he made against U.S. investigators.
2023-5-16 22:14 | |
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The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services issued a May 19 ultimatum to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler to respond to its inquiries. In a May 9 letter, the lawmakers demanded that the SEC deliver the requested internal non-public documents of its activities, including its charges against bankrupt FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, crypto […] The post US house financial committee gives SEC Chair Gensler ultimatum to respond to inquiries appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2023-5-12 20:31 | |
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Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-seung and seven other associates are set to face trial on May 26 over fraud charges related to the collapse of the Terra-Luna stablecoin and crypto project in May 2022.
2023-5-11 13:54 | |
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed pretrial motions to dismiss 10 of the 13 charges against him, according to a May 8 court filing. According to a memorandum of law filed by the SBF lawyers, the prosecutors hastily charged their client in a rush to judgment.
2023-5-9 10:30 | |
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Celsius co-founder and former CEO Alex Mashinksy said Celsius Earn’s accounts are not securities in his defense of the New York’s attorney general charges against him, according to a May 2 court filing.
2023-5-4 17:35 | |
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Former FTX executive Nishad Singh is reportedly planning to plead guilty to criminal charges. Singh may face separate charges filed by the SEC and CFTC. Nishad Singh, the former head of engiThe post Former FTX executive Nishad Singh reportedly plans to plead guilty appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-2-18 13:30 | |
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Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to plead not guilty to the charges against him, Wall Street Journal reported. The post FTX Founder May Plead ‘Not Guilty’ as Bahamas is Accused of Seizing $300M appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-1-1 18:47 | |
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SEC states Sam Bankman-Fried “concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1. 8 billion from investors The Securities and Exchange Commission on December 13, charge SBF with “orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd (FTX)” Since May, 2019, FTX raised over $1.
2022-12-13 14:32 | |
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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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The SEC has charged the team behind Forsage for allegedly running a crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme, which may have cost investors over $300 million worldwide. Both Pyramid and Ponzi...
2022-8-2 20:33 | |
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The SEC and DOJ brought insider trading charges against three people Thursday, but assertions that nine cryptocurrencies are securities may hold greater implications.
2022-7-22 20:47 | |
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Terra CEO Do Kwon has been in hot water ever since the collapse of the network last month. After the UST lost its peg and the price of LUNA (Now LUNC) crashed below zero, there had been calls for investigations into the cause of the crash seeing that thousands of investors had lost billions of […]
2022-6-10 20:00 | |
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Upgrading the Ethereum network from its current state to the 2.0 version is an event that the entire cryptocurrency community looks forward to, for very valid reasons. First, the change in Ethereum’s highly congested network is expected to lead to a reduction in clogging, a reduction in fee charges, and a higher transaction processing speed, […]
2021-3-26 14:00 | |
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An Ontario man based in San Bernardino County of the U.S. has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally operating a bitcoin to cash exchange business. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the man, Hugo Sergio Mejia, 49, operated the unregistered exchange business between May 2018 and September 2020. Accordingly, Mejia […]
2021-2-2 12:20 | |
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In terms of the price of Bitcoin, criminal charges on the popular cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX may be bearish, but the same isn’t true for the overall market. Just like it is bullish in the long term, this could help in getting the much-desired Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) an approval.
2020-10-3 17:52 | |
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Kais Mohammad, aka “Superman29,” has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he ran an unlicensed Bitcoin ATM network that laundered up to $25 million.
2020-7-23 23:44 | |
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With more and more developers exploring Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 testnets, the first plagiarism charges have been hurled. Some redditors learned it may resemble Cardano (ADA)!
2020-1-27 20:10 | |
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As if it wasn’t knee-deep in a mess already, Telegram’s ambitious billion-dollar ICO has hit yet another setback. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it is halting the company’s $1.
2019-10-12 12:51 | |
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Since the unraveling of Silk Road, its creator, Ross Ulbricht, has served six full years since his initial imprisonment. All this time is just a small dent on the double life sentence plus 40 years that Ulbricht received in May 2015, on charges of money-laundering and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
2019-10-2 17:00 | |
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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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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Although China has shut down bitcoin trading platforms and deemed them illegal, its attitude toward bitcoin mining is still ambiguous.
2019-5-31 20:14 | |
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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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Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
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By CCN: ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees made a valid observation on Twitter today, pointing out that there’s some degree of irony in the charges potentially facing embattled Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex: Tether had the cash reserves, despite wide speculation that the company had issued far more crypto tokens than it could settle.
2019-4-27 00:35 | |
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WikiLeaks‘ Julianne Assange‘s days of holing up in an Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition have come to an end. In just a few hours, he’s been arrested and found guilty of a variety of charges.
2019-4-12 17:34 | |
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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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It seems that Tesla just can’t catch a break. Following charges from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could force Elon Musk to temporarily step down as CEO, the company’s vehicles are allegedly having more than a little trouble staying clean.
2019-3-9 00:53 | |
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In 2016, a Florida judge dismissed money laundering and illegal money transmission charges against a bitcoin trader, arguing that bitcoin wasn’t covered by state statutes. Today, an appeals court reversed that decision.
2019-1-31 22:15 | |
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India could be making a U-turn on its directives for cryptocurrencies. Per reports from the New India Express, a second interdisciplinary committee set up by the Indian government is considering making cryptocurrencies legal in the country again but with more stringent rules.
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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The patent would allow for connectivity between autonomous vehicles, the world around them, and the various charges they may incur while out on the road.
2018-12-4 01:11 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Friday's charges against Airfox and Paragon Coin may hint at how the SEC will regulate ICOs going forward.
2018-11-17 01:45 | |
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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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Does a decades-old securities law apply to an initial coin offering (ICO)? In a case that represents the first time securities laws have been applied to cryptocurrencies, a district judge says it may.
2018-9-12 22:09 | |
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Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), a company officially focused on cryptocurrency mining and the development of an exchange, has swiftly replaced its CEO after the SEC charged him in connection to a fraudulent $27 million pump an dump scheme.
2018-9-11 19:45 | |
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According to reports from a Korean accounting firm, the biggest South Korean crypto exchange UPbit is cleared of charges from the allegations that were made against it last May. The exchange was blamed to have manipulated its balance sheet which resulted in a rise in its trading values. Soon after unknown sources claimed that the firm […]
2018-8-8 02:57 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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The electoral campaign finance board of North Carolina will not allow election candidates to accept crypto donations in order to fund their campaigns. Although the Federal Election Commission in 2014 allowed candidates for federal office to accept Bitcoin donations, U.