Nathaniel Chastain was involved in the world’s first case of insider trading in digital assets, a crime that took place on OpenSea. Former OpenSea product manager arrested: the world’s first NFT insi...
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Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company
After the widely publicized collapse of the Terra (LUNA) ecosystem which caused significant losses for investors, and accusations of fraud against its founder Do Kwon, Terraform Labs is in the spotlig...
New York couple accused of laundering $4.5 bln in crypto
Bitfinex is still negotiating a possible plea deal Morgan was released to house arrest Federal prosecutors asked to postpone the hearing until Aug. 2 A New York couple blamed for washing $4.5 billion...
Couple accused of laundering Bitfinex hack proceeds reportedly seeks plea deal
The case hearing for the couple involved in laundering money for the Bitfinex hack has been postponed. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were accused of being involved in the Bitfinex hack...
NFT Project Milady’s Charlotte Fang Accused Of Racism And Homophobia
Dune co-founder Charlotte Fang has abandoned an NFT initiative dubbed Milady, following a Twitter trolling firestorm. In January, a DAO purchased one of the last copies of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune...
Elon Musk was accused of sexual misconduct by a SpaceX flight attendant
SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Elon Musk after a flight attendant on the company’s corporate jet accused the CEO of exposing himself to her mid-flight, Insider report...
Grand Jury Indicts Accused Buffalo Shooter Payton Gendron On First Degree Murder Charge
Topline Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man accused of killing 10 people—most of whom were Black—at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, last week, appeared briefly in court on Thursday after a...
The Department Of Justice Has Filed Its First Criminal Complaint Against A US Citizen Accused Of Evading Sanctions By Using Cryptocurrency
The defendant then used this crypto exchange account to send over $10 million in BTC for the platform’s users between the United States and sanctioned countries. Judge Faruqui stated why he allo...
UMI Team Accused CoinMarketCap of Double Standard Policy
Yet another scandal on the Internet. The UMI representatives are accusing the biggest data aggregator in the digital assets market — CoinMarketCap — of publishing information injurious to the crypto p...
Ukraine Begins First War Crimes Trial For Russian Soldier Accused Of Killing Unarmed Civilian
Topline Ukraine on Friday held a preliminary hearing of a case against a 21-year-old Russian soldier accused of killing an unarmed 62-year-old Ukrainian man, potentially the first of many trials as au...
Mining Capital Coin CEO, Luiz Capuci, accused of $62M investment fraud
Capuci operated a fraudulent investment scheme They did not use investors’ funds to mine new cryptocurrency, as promised Instead, they diverted the funds to cryptocurrency wallets under his control P...
Mining Capital Coin CEO accused of $62M investment fraud scheme
The CEO and co-founder of crypto mining and investment platform Mining Capital Coin (MCC) Luiz Capuci Jr. has been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for “allegedly orchestrating a $62 millio...
Mining Capital Coin CEO Accused of $62M Cryptocurrency Scam
Editors News Crypto mining and trading were not the focus of Mining Capital Coin’s investments. Last week, a South Korean crypto exchange chief executive was detained. The U.S. Department of Justice h...
Starbucks accused of more than 200 labor violations in NLRB complaint
Starbucks workers react as they speak to the media after union vote in Buffalo, New York, December 9, 2021. Lindsay DeDario | Reuters The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Buf...
Crypto Exchange Head Accused Of Leaking Secrets To North Korea
The head of a South Korean crypto exchange was reportedly indicted for allegedly leaking military secrets to a presumed North Korean agent. Officials have so far declined to reveal the identity of the...
GOP Congressman Cawthorn Accused of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Pump-and-Dump
In brief Watchdog groups say Madison Cawthorn may have violated insider trading laws. The controversy is related to a short-lived “Let’s Go Brandon” coin. In his short time in Congre...
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn Accused of LGBCoin Pump-and-Dump Scheme
U.S. representative Madison Cawthorn may have defied federal insider trading laws after his alleged involvement in a crypto pump-and-dump scheme. Several watchdog groups allege that the North Carolina...
MicroStrategy accused of secretly dumping over 8000 BTC
Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, could be selling Bitcoin despite vowing never to sell the company’s BTC holdings. A recent report has shown that Saylor is dumping thousands of Bitcoin withou...
Roblox accused of deceptive marketing: Pro says avoid RBLX
Shares of Roblox Corp (NYSE: RBLX) are down nearly 15% after an ad watchdog accused the video game developer of deceptive marketing in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Carter Worth is b...
Putin Honors Army Unit Accused Of Bucha Killings
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday awarded the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade — the Russian army unit Ukraine has accused of war crimes for the killings of hundreds of citizens in Bucha — th...
Dmitry Pavlov Accused As Hydra Administrator, Taken Into Custody
The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow has arrested him with an accusation of the sale, production, and distribution of drugs. The accused has the exact name of an alleged administrator of the...
Controversy Revolves Around SafeMoon: Former Promoter Accused of Fraud Worth $12M
CoffeeZilla has taken a dig at the former promoter for the crypto project SafeMoon exposing all that he found is suspicious. He disclosed the alleged suspicious dealing of the influencer Ben Phillips...
Former Safemoon Marketing Chief Accused Of Running $12 Million Crypto Scam
As the bitcoin market matures and digital assets generate interest, widespread pump and dump tactics proliferate. One example is Safemoon. In such schemes, well-known individuals utilize their promine...
SafeMoon embroiled in further scandal as promoter accused of $12 million fraud
SafeMoon is caught up in further controversy as YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, AKA Coffeezilla makes pump and dump allegations against its former chief marketing officer. Specifically, Findeisen calls ou...
Why is Coinbase, while its transparency drives, being accused of Insider trading, again?
Recently the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said to disclose the listing projects to boost transparency in the ecosystem The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in America, Coinbase, has announced in a ...
Coinbase Again Accused of Insider Trading After New Altcoin Prospects Are Published
An attempt to improve the transparency of the asset listing process at Coinbase has instead inadvertently raised further questions about insider trading. In an April 11 blog published by Coinbase, the...
Former SEC Director accused of corruption, how might this affect the Ripple case?
Whistleblower group Empower Oversight has released details of emails received in a freedom of information request related to the ongoing SEC vs. Ripple lawsuit. Among the 200 pages or so, they say the...
Landlord of men accused of impersonating DHS agents won unpaid rent judgment
Arian Taherzadeh seen in photos submitted in a D.O.J. affidavit. Courtesy: D.O.J The landlord of two Washington, D.C., men charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents won a judgm...
Department of Justice Seizes $34,000,000 in Crypto From Florida Man Accused of Selling Stolen Data on Dark Web
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized tens of millions of dollars in crypto assets from an individual who allegedly sold illicit goods and laundered funds through the Dark Web. According to ...
SpiceDAO Founder Accused Of Posting Racist and Homophobic Comments Online
Charlie/Charlotte Fang, Founder of SpiceDAO is accused of posting some Racist and Homophobic comments. Spice DAO bought an original Jodorowsky’s Dune book for USD$3 million and in the name of preserv...