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Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley found guilty on fraud, tax-evasion charges
ATLANTA — Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality television show “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty Tuesday in Atlanta on federal charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. The Chrisle...
IRA Financial Trust files charges against Gemini over February hack
IRA Financial Trust has launched a lawsuit against the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. IRA Financial Trust is a company that manages individual retirement accounts dealing in non-traditional financial...
Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology in US Now Thrives in China
(Bloomberg) — Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML Holding NV, a Dutch manufacturer whose equipment plays an integral role in ma...
Do Kwon Unlikely to Face Criminal Charges in US, Say Legal Experts – Featured Bitcoin News
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is unlikely to face criminal charges in the U.S. over the collapse of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST), according to legal experts. They explained t...
CFTC Charges Gemini for Providing ‘Material False’ Statements on Bitcoin Futures Product
On Thursday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint against Gemini Trust Company LLC, led by the Winklevoss twins in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
Money laundering charges for Terraform Labs
According to rumours, Terraform Labs is accused of money laundering of $4.8 million. Terraform Labs and the laundering of approximately $5 million In addition to being a huge Ponzi scheme, Terra is al...
South Africa Charges Former Monero Lead Developer With 378 Counts of Fraud and Forgery – Regulation Bitcoin News
Former Monero lead maintainer, Riccardo Spagni, faces over 370 counts of fraud, forgery, and uttering. The charges against the developer stem from fraudulent activities he allegedly committed when he ...
U.S. Department of Justice Charges Former OpenSea Executive in First-Ever Insider Trading Crypto Scheme
In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging a former executive of the world’s leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace with insider trading. According to a new press...
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 lead-maintainer for Monero to be extradited from US on fraud charges
South African crypto developer Ricardo “Fluffypony” Spagni is set to return to his native country after his extradition was requested by authorities. He has denied any wrong-doing. Spani is wanted by ...
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...
DOJ Charges Former OpenSea Exec in ‘Insider Trading Scheme’
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer previously told Decrypt that some suspicious NFT trades made by a former executive had been “misframed” as insider trading. Today, the Department of Justice called those trade...
Binance to Investigate Charges Against Do Kwon & Terra 2.0
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and Terraform have been accused by Terra insider FatMan. Binance CEO “CZ” has requested his investigative team to check into the accusations against Do Kwon and Terra 2....
CFTC Charges Illinois and Oregon Residents in Alleged $44,000,000 Crypto Ponzi Scheme
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) is announcing charges against two US residents alleging that they were behind a multi-million-dollar crypto Ponzi scheme. According to a press release...
CFTC charges two men with $44 million cryptocurrency ‘Ponzi scheme’
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday charged two US residents with fraud “akin to a Ponzi scheme” in soliciting about $44 million from at least 170 investors through a website a...
CFTC Charges Two Men Behind $44 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged two U.S. residents and their entities for running a cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded over 170 investors. CFTC C...
CFTC Charges Oregon and Illinois Resident in $44 Million Fraud
On Thursday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it filed a civil enforcement action against an Oregon and Illinois resident, as well as a Florida company for fraudulently s...
CFTC Charges Two Individuals for $44 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud
The United States Community Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged two US residents, Sam Ikkurty and Ravishankar Avadhanam, for their involvement in a cryptocurrency ponzi scheme that stole ove...
Korean Prosecutors Consider Bringing Ponzi Scheme Charges Against Terraform Labs’ CEO
The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office in Korea is investigating whether it can bring charges of a Ponzi scheme against Terraform Lab’s CEO, Do Kwon. The prosecutor’s department in Korea is l...
Prosecutors Investigate Do Kwon with Ponzi Fraud Charges amid Terraform Labs Dissolvement
Do Kwon’s scandal seem to be deepening. Prosecutors are investigating whether they will file Ponzi fraud charges against him following the Terra crash, according to The Korea Times. This comes a day ...
CFTC Charges 2 Men With Running a $44M Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Officials with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) allege Sam Ikkurty (also known as Sreenivas I Rao), of Portland, Ore., and Ravishankar Avadhanam of Aurora, Ill., as well as several corp...
Terra Founder Do Kwon Faces Tax Evasion Charges In S. Korea
Amid the ongoing Terra debacle, founder Do Kwon has now reportedly come under further scrutiny from the South Korean government for alleged tax evasion. South Korea’s Tax Service is charging Kwon and ...
Terra Loses More Form: Do Kwon Faces Tax Evasion Charges; Law Firm Sues To Seize Properties
The multibillion-dollar collapse of Terra Labs’ stablecoin and the LUNA token is still ringing across the cryptocurrency industry, and numerous questions for Terra’s South Korean founder, Kwon Do-hyun...
Terra Co-Founders to Face Fraud Charges in South Korea
The challenges ahead for Terra’s co-founders are notably more than just reviving the protocol after UST and LUNA coins collapsed last week. As reported by a local media site, Munhwa, an organized grou...
Justice Department Charges Defendant With Sending $10M in Bitcoin to Sanctioned Country
The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against an unnamed defendant who allegedly sent more than $10 million worth of Bitcoin in an attempt to skirt economic sanctions. In an opinion publis...
US SEC Charges Allianz Global Investors with Multibillion-Dollar Fraud
On Tuesday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is one of the most widely known independent authoriti...
CFTC Charges American Resident in $59 Million Illegal FX Scheme
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US (CFTC) confirmed yesterday that it has filed a civil enforcement action against Eddy Alexandre, a resident of Valley Stream, New York in a fraudulent...
US Charges Cybercriminal with Stealing Money from Brokerage Accounts
On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said that a federal court in Brooklyn unsealed a criminal complaint to charge Idris Dayo Mustapha with computer intrusion, securities fraud, money laund...
US DOJ Charges Mining Capital Coin CEO for Allegedly Running a $62M Crypto Fraud
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted Luiz Capuci Jr., the CEO and co-founder of Mining Capital Coin (MCC), for allegedly running a $62 million fraud scheme. Mining Capital Coin C...
Mario Batalli Returns—In Court, Facing Sexual Misconduct Charges
Topline Disgraced celebrity chef Mario Batali—largely out of public view since sexual harassment allegations emerged against him in the media five years ago—returned Monday to face sexual misconduct c...