Heather Morgan, who was charged along with her husband in February of conspiring to launder $4.5 billion worth of bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange, was granted permission by a judge to...
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Alex Murdaugh Charged With Murdering Wife And Son
Topline Alex Murdaugh was indicted Thursday on two counts of murder in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son, bringing the total criminal charges against the disgraced South Carolina lawyer to 85, inclu...
Ohio Man Charged With Raping 10-Year-Old Girl Who Was Denied Abortion
Topline A man in Ohio was arrested Tuesday and charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who was impregnated and then denied an abortion under state law, forcing her to travel out of state, a case that g...
Alabama Fugitive Charged With Murder Over Death Of Jail Guard Vicky White
Topline Casey White, the Alabama inmate who allegedly escaped from jail with the help of county corrections officer Vicky White, was charged with felony murder over the jail guard’s death, two months ...
Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone Charged With Fraud
Topline British authorities charged billionaire Bernie Ecclestone Monday related to allegations of fraud, the latest drama in a controversy-filled year for the former Formula One boss. Bernie Ecclesto...
Ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to be charged with fraud
Getty Images | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone will be charged with fraud by false representation over an alleged failure to declare £400m of overseas asset...
Alleged Highland Park Shooter Charged With 7 Counts Of First-Degree Murder
Topline Robert Crimo III—the 21-year-old arrested for allegedly carrying out a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois—was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder ...
Suspect Confesses To Killing Maltese Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia And Says He Should Have Charged More
Topline One of the men accused of carrying out the 2017 murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia admitted to the killing in an interview with Reuters, saying he would have ask...
Mirror Trading International mastermind Steynberg charged in US court
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged Mirror Trading International and boss Johannes Steynberg with alleged fraud and registration violations on Thursday. The commission deemed the South Af...
The guy who accidentally charged 69 cents for gas is trying to repay $20,000 to the station that fired him
The manager of a Shell gas stop in California was fired this week after he accidentally trimmed more than $6 from his station’s premium fuel prices for three hours. Prices for premium gas at a Shell ...
BlockFi is charged with $193k for improper compliance
BlockFi is much from having a peaceful season. Not solely the crypto business is suffering the hits of a bear market, currently the crypto disposal platform is facing an almost $1 million fine oblig...
Can Trump Be Charged As Result Of The Jan. 6 Committee Investigation? Here’s What To Know
Topline The House January 6 Committee has started making a public case against former President Donald Trump and his allies in a series of hearings, arguing the former president “oversaw and coordinat...
Grand Rapids Police Officer Charged With Second-Degree Murder In Killing Of Patrick Lyoya
Topline Grand Rapids Police officer Christopher Schurr was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, who Schurr fatally shot in the back of the head during a traffic st...
Ex-IPS Officer Charged for Multi-Million Cryptocurrency Fraud
5 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News The fraudulent digital wallets held roughly 34 cryptocurrencies. The funds are worth 6 crores rupees ($7,72,471). An official said on Tuesday that the Pune polic...
Gemini Exchange Charged For Deception In Its Bitcoin Futures Approval Process
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission submitted a complaint against Gemini Exchange, led by Winklevoss Twins. Precisely, CFTC made allegations that Gemini exchange misled the regulators regarding t...
Former OpenSea Employee Officially Charged for NFT Insider Trading
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged Nathaniel Chastain, a former employee at NFT marketplace OpenSea, for wire fraud and money laundering involving insider trading in non-fungibl...
Former product manager at OpenSea charged with insider trading
On Wednesday, United States prosecutors in Manhattan charged Nathaniel Chastain, 31, with insider trading. Chastain is a former product manager at OpenSea, the largest nonfungible token (NFT) marketpl...
OpenSea In More Hot Water: Executive Charged With Insider Trading
A former OpenSea executive has been arrested and booked on charges of insider trading of NFTs, wire fraud, and money laundering. OpenSea’s Latest Woes – Insider Trading The accused, Nathaniel C...
Former OpenSea Exec Charged with Insider Trading
Alex Dovbnya This marks the very first NFT insider trading case for U.S. authorities Nathaniel Chastain, former product manager at leading non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea, has been charged with...
Former OpenSea Staff Charged with Insider Trading Offenses
Nathaniel Chastain, a former Head of Product at OpenSea, the largest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for alleged insider tr...
Monero co-founder “Fluffypony” charged with 378 charges of fraud
The South African government has announced it has charged Riccardo Spagni also known as “Fluffypony” with 378 counts of fraud, forgery, and uttering in a 1.5-million South African Rand dispute with hi...
Former OpenSea Employee Charged for NFT Insider Trading
The US Justice Department charged a former product manager at OpenSea with wire fraud and money laundering. He had allegedly used confidential business information of what NFT projects would be featur...
OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested and Charged in First NFT Insider Trading Case – crypto.news
Nathaniel Chastain, the former Head of Product of the leading Ethereum NFT marketplace OpenSea has been indicted by a grand jury on wire fraud and money laundering charges. Nate Chastain Indicted for ...
First-ever NFT Insider Trading Case – Former Head of Product of OpenSea Charged
Ever since Non-Fungible Tokens arrived and started turning investors into overnight millionaires, the US government has kept a sharp eye on the market’s movement. And now, we have our very prosecution...
Former OpenSea Executive Charged With NFT Insider Trading
Following reports of insider trading last year, OpenSea said it was conducting a thorough third party review of the incident. The platform said it initiated countermeasures to make sure such incidents...
Former OpenSea Employee Charged With NFT Insider Trading; Faces Wire Fraud & Money Laundering Charges
Former OpenSea employee Nathaniel Chastain, 31, has been formally charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering and is awaiting trial in New York. Following an elaborate schem...
$44M Ponzi scheme charged with stealing $18M in funds
Two individuals and a company have been charged with operating an illegal community pool and fraudulently soliciting $44 million via an “income fund investing in digital assets.” The defendants are Sa...
New York crypto company CEO arrested by FBI, charged with fraud
The CEO of a New York City cryptocurrency company was arrested by the FBI on Thursday and charged with running a $59 million fraud scheme. A criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court charged...
FX and Crypto Trading Platform CEO Charged for $59 Million Fraud
The authorities in the United States have charged Eddy Alexandre with commodities fraud and wire fraud offenses for his activities with cryptocurrency and forex trading platform EminiFX. Announced on ...
Mining Capital Coin CEO charged with $62M crypto fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment charging Luiz Capuci Jr., the CEO of Mining Capital Coin (MCC), for orchestrating a $62 million global investment and fraud scheme. The compan...
The SEC Has Put A Stop To A $62 Million Cryptocurrency Mining And Trading Scheme And The DOJ Has Charged The Founder
The MCC founder also reportedly recruited promoters and affiliates to promote MCC in a pyramid scheme, concealing the location and control of the fraud proceeds through several foreign-based cryptocur...
A Crypto Mining Firm CEO Charged With A Crypto Fraud Of $62 million By U.S. Department of Justice
In a case of allegedly running a global investment fraud scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has levied charges against the CEO of a crypto mining firm. Luiz Capuci Jr., founder, and chief e...