The US Justice Department has laid an iron hand on an undisclosed American citizen who has sent roughly $10 million worth of digital coins to a location sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Cont...
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U.S. Department of Justice Lays First Criminal Crypto Sanctions Charge
The U.S. Justice Department has opened its first criminal case of sanctions evasion using cryptocurrencies, according to a federal judge. An unnamed American citizen is now being accused of sending $1...
Department of Justice Indicts Crypto CEO for Alleged $62M Fraud Scheme
The CEO of mining and investment platform Mining Capital Coin (MCC) Luiz Capuci Jr. has been indicted for allegedly orchestrating a $62 million fraud that affected thousands of investors. According to...
US Treasury control Department Imposes New Sanctions on N.Korean Democratic People’s Crypto Mixer
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed new penalties against Blender.io, a cryptocurrency mixer used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). This...
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...
U.S. Department of Justice Charges Florida Executive Over Alleged Involvement in $62,000,000 Crypto Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is announcing charges against the CEO of a crypto mining company for allegedly running a global investment fraud scheme. According to a statement released by the D...
US Treasury Department sanctions Blender.io over laundering proceeds of Axie Infinity hack
The Ronin Network’s hack was ranked as one of the largest in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The threat actors behind the hack made away with over $600M worth of cryptocurrencies. The US Trea...
Rates Are Rising and Stocks Are Taking a Beating. It Won’t End Soon.
Text size The market reacted violently to the Federal Open Market Committee, which hiked the federal-funds rate target by half a percentage point for only the second time this century. Spencer Platt/G...
US Senator Introduces Bill Prohibiting Labor Department From Interfering With Crypto in Retirement Accounts – Regulation Bitcoin News
A U.S. senator has introduced a bill to prohibit the Labor Department from issuing a regulation or guidance that limits the type of investments investors can choose in their retirement plans, includin...
New York Department of Financial Services urges crypto firms to use blockchain analytic services ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     New York’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued guidelines on the use of Blockchain analytics to all licensed crypto startups within N...
China Messaging On Ukraine Shows Support For Russia’s Invasion: U.S. State Department
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, right, and Xi Jinping, China’s president, listen to questions at … [+] the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2019. Photographer: Andrey Rud...
The Department Of Justice Is Crackdown Upon Rug Pulls Prosecuting The Creators Of The Frosties NFT Initiative
The two were planning to start the sale of another NFT product called Embers, which was intended to produce roughly $1.5 million in cryptocurrency profits. They abruptly abandoned and shut down the pr...
US Labor Department Disagrees With Fidelity Investment’s Move to Invest Retirement Funds in 401(k) – crypto.news
The US Labor Department officials have expressed their doubts over Fidelity Investment’s plan to allow investors to put bitcoin in their 401(k) accounts. According to a senior administrator, they beli...
The Idaho finance department warns to stay away from these specific crypto schemes
The financial authority has warned crypto investors of such a crypto scam series that promises high returns in less time with no risk. An announcement was made by the Idaho Department of Finance that ...
As Time Passes, and the Weather Warms, Putin’s Power Play in Europe Loses Force
Why isn’t Putin’s move to cut off natural-gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria causing a bigger spike in prices? Elias Stein Text size Vladimir Putin’s move to cut off natural-gas shipments to Poland ...
Labor Department has ‘grave concerns’ over Fidelity’s 401(k) bitcoin plans
The US Labor Department will discuss concerns with Fidelity Investments over its decision to allow retirement savers to include bitcoin in their portfolios. On Tuesday, Fidelity said it would allow cl...
U.S. Department of Labor Expresses ‘Grave Concerns’ Over Fidelity’s Proposed Bitcoin 401(k) Plans: Report
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is reportedly having “grave concerns” about Fidelity Investments’ recent decision to launch Bitcoin (BTC) 401(k) plans. In a new Wall Street Journal (WSJ) interview,...
US Department of Labor Shares ‘Grave Concerns’ on Fidelity’s Bitcoin Retirement Move
The U.S. Department of Labor has “grave concerns” over the inclusion of crypto, including Bitcoin, in American retirement accounts. Days after Fidelity opened its retirement accounts to B...
Fidelity’s Bitcoin 401(k) Offering Risks Retirement Security of Americans, Says Labor Department Official – Finance Bitcoin News
The U.S. Labor Department has “grave concerns” about Fidelity Investments allowing investors to put bitcoin into their 401(k) accounts for retirement savings. An official of the Labor Department said ...
Hack The Department of Homeland Security Major Success, Illustrates Way Forward for Crypto
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post The Department of Homeland Security announced that their Hack DHS program resulted in fixing more than 120 security vulnerabilities – 27 of them being rated as cri...
Labor Department Skeptical of Fidelity’s Bitcoin 401(k)s
Key Takeaways The assistant secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor has noted his agency’s major worries with Fidelity permitting Bitcoin in it...
Labor Department has ‘grave concerns’ over Fidelity’s plan to allow Bitcoin into 401(k) accounts
According to a senior administrator at the U.S. Labor Department, the proposal by Fidelity Investments to enable clients to put Bitcoin (BTC) into their 401(k) plans poses a danger to the financial se...
Will Biden’s Commerce Department Really Punish Solar In Asia?
President Biden touring a solar facility in New Hampshire. Are these panels all made in Asia? Most … [+] likely yes. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) ASSOCIATED PRESS They’re baa-aack. The Commerce Dep...
U.S. Treasury Department Adds 3 More ETH Addresses to Blacklist
The U.S. Department of Treasury believes it has found more ETH wallet addresses linked to North Korea and the hacker group, Lazarus, who was responsible for last month’s Axie Infinity hack on Ronin Ne...
British Department Store Harvey Nichols Opens NFT Space in Hong Kong
British luxury department store Harvey Nichols launched an NFT space called “HN NFT Vault” in its branch in the Pacific Place mall in Hong Kong yesterday. For Londoners, Harvey Nichols is synonymous ...
US Treasury Department sanctions Russia-based crypto mining firm
The US Treasury Department has included a crypto mining service provider among the firms included in sanctions against Russia. BitRiver and some of its subsidiaries have been accused of enabling the e...
US Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Russian Crypto Mining Firm Bitriver
The United States announced that it has added Bitriver, a Russian cryptocurrency mining firm, to its sanctions list. The latest movement is part of the US ongoing efforts to block Russian companies f...
CDC asks Justice Department to appeal ruling that lifted travel mask mandate
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS | DigitalVision | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that it requested the Justice Department to proceed with an appea...
FBI, US Treasury Department Warn About North Korean-Backed Crypto Hackers
Leading American agencies, including the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Treasury Department, alerted that North Korean-sponsored hackers seek to exploit cryp...
GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...