The founders of Bitmex have been ordered to pay $30 million “for illegally operating a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform and anti-money laundering violations.” Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, a...
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Former BitMEX CEO asks for probation over jail time ahead of court sentencing
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is seeking probation with the ability to travel and reside abroad rather than serving jail time. Hayes pleaded guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in Febru...
China’s Crypto Stance Takes A Hit As Shanghai’s Top Court Upholds Bitcoin As Property ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     A top court in Shangai, China’s biggest city and a global financial hub has upheld Bitcoin as property under Chinese laws, pitting the government aga...
BitMEX Founders Ordered By US Court To Pay $30 Million Fine For Illegal Crypto Trading
The brains behind BitMEX are in hot water. In conjunction with a lawsuit filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordere...
Court Hits BitMEX Co-founders With $30M in Civil Monetary Penalties
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday announced that the District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) had issued a Consent Order against all three founders of cryp...
Court orders BitMEX founders to pay $30M civil penalty
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered a total of $30 million civil monetary penalties from the three co-founders of BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange, including fo...
Former BitMEX Chief Asks Court for Probation, Not Jail
Former BitMEX co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes is asking for no jail time and permission to live overseas in anticipation of his sentencing later this month. Lawyers for the 37-year-old American entrep...
Arthur Hayes Asks Court Not to Send Him to Jail
Alex Dovbnya BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is asking a federal judge for a non-jail sentence Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is asking a Manhattan federal judge for a sentence without incarceration. The cont...
Oath Keepers Leader Tried To Contact Trump For Help During Capitol Riot, Court Filing Says
Topline Elmer Stewart Rhodes—founder of the extremist Oath Keepers—tried to contact then-President Donald Trump during the January 6 Capitol riot and urge him to endorse a forcible halt to the transfe...
Supreme Court May Soon Overturn Roe V. Wade—Here Are The States With Abortion Protections If It Does
Topline The Supreme Court appears poised to strike down the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, according to a draft opinion obtained by Politico—but several states have already ...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts Confirms Roe V. Wade Leak, Says Court Will Investigate
Topline Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of a draft opinion obtained by Politico indicating the court will restrict abortion rights by overturning Roe v. Wade, calli...
Draft Supreme Court Abortion Opinion ‘Completely Inconsistent’ With What Gorsuch, Kavanaugh Said During Confirmation
Topline Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade is “completely inconsistent” with what Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett...
Here’s What Will Happen If The Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade
Topline The Supreme Court will likely overturn Roe v. Wade and give states the freedom to outlaw abortion, according to a draft opinion reported by Politico, which would result in more than a dozen st...
Court Approves Ripple’s Time Extension Request to Respond to the SEC’s Motion to Protect Hinman’s Documents
– Advertisement – Ripple’s response to the SEC’s bid to protect Hinman’s documents is now due on May 13, 2022 The court has granted Ripple’s request for an extension of time to file a res...
Reactions Divided Along Partisan Lines Following Reports That Supreme Court Is Set To Overturn Roe V. Wade
Topline Democratic leaders and pro-abortion rights activists called for legislative action to protect the right to abortion services while Republican leaders and anti-abortion activists cheered after ...
Supreme Court Reportedly Plans To Overturn Roe V. Wade, According To Leaked Draft Opinion
Topline Members of the Supreme Court have agreed to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed abortion rights nationwide, according to an apparently leaked draft opinion obtained by Pol...
Republicans Will Try To Ban Abortion Nationwide If Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Report Reveals
Topline The fight over abortion restrictions could soon go from statehouses to Capitol Hill, as the Washington Post reports Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion rights activists are working to enact...
SEC vs Ripple: Decoding SEC’s latest attempt to avoid submitting evidence in court
Judge Analisa Torres brought forward the SEC v Ripple calendar to expedite proceedings. The SEC has made several extensions to address one key issue that continues to weaken its case against Ripple. A...
Ripple v. SEC: Court Modifies Proposed Calendar
Alex Dovbnya According to the new schedule, motions for summary judgment must be fully briefed a month earlier than expected Analisa Torres, a judge for the United States District Court for the Southe...
Judge Shifts Some New York Primaries To August After Court Scraps Voting Maps
Topline A state judge Friday said New York must shift its congressional and state senate primaries to August, two days after the state’s top court scrapped voting maps it said were unconstitutionally ...
NY Court Of Appeals Throws Out ‘Partisan’ Congressional Maps Drawn By Democrats
Topline New York State Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down congressional and state senate district maps drawn by Democrats, calling them unconstitutional because they were drawn with “impermissi...
Kim Kardashian Tells Court She Doesn’t Remember Trying To Get Blac Chyna’s TV Show Canceled
Topline Kim Kardashian took the stand Tuesday to testify in the $100 million trial brought by her brother Rob Kardashian’s ex-fiancée Blac Chyna against her, along with her sisters Khloé Kardashian an...
Chinese court rules marketplace guilty of minting NFTs from stolen artwork
A court in the Chinese city of Hangzhou issued a one-of-a-kind judgment against a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace for allowing a user to create (or mint) NFTs of stolen artwork. As reported by Sou...
Texas Court Grants Stay Of Execution For Melissa Lucio
Topline The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution Monday for Melissa Lucio, a woman convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday,...
Judge holds Donald Trump in contempt of court in New York attorney general prob
Former US President Donald Trump holds a rally sponsored by Save America with Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn, Bo Hines, Dan Bishop, Mark Robinson and Greg Murphy in Selma, NC, on April 9, 2022. Peter Zay ...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Argues ‘Racist’ Decisions Against Puerto Ricans Should Be Overturned—Here’s What That Could Mean
Topline Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called for the court Thursday to overturn a series of landmark decisions from the early 1900s that deprived residents of U.S. territories from having full co...
Court Lets Challenge Against Former Overstock CEO Move Forward—Here’s Where Dominion And Smartmatic’s Defamation Suits Stand Now
Topline Voting company Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne can move forward, a judge ruled Wednesday, as Dominion and rival company Smartmatic pursue...
QPay to Give Up £2 Million to FCA after Court Order
Financial technology company, QPay, has agreed to a court order to give up £2,000,000 held in its name to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial industry regulator. Take Advantage o...