Alexandre, a French national, recently pleaded guilty in a cryptocurrency case, where he was charged with operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. ...
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Kim Kardashian Forfeits Penalty Funds to the SEC Over Ethereum Max Promotion
Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a $1.26 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to what may have been an unlawful promotion of a new digital currency known as Ethereum Max. K...
Hacker Forfeits $21,849,087 Worth of Bitcoin to Feds, Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
A Canadian hacker is forfeiting millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to the U.S. government while facing a multi-decade prison sentence. According to a new press release from the Department of J...
Solend Community Passes Counter Proposal After SLND1 Criticism; Forfeits Emergency Powers to Overtake Accounts
Two community proposals by Solana-based decentralized finance (Defi) protocol Solend were voted on recently to mitigate risks from whales that operate on large margin positions. However, the second pr...
Craig Wright Forfeits $43 Million in Interest Payments
Last December, a case between Craig Wright – an Australian computer scientist and the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin – and David Kleiman, now deceased, saw Wright having to forfeit as much as $10...
Darknet dealer sentenced to 8 years prison, forfeits $2.3m in Bitcoin
Bitcoin worth $2.3m has been forfeited by darknet dealer Binh Thanh Le He lives in Brockton, Massachusetts, and started the EastSideHIgh darknet market The sentence was a clear message to all the dea...
‘Ecstasy Kingpin’ From Brockton Forfeits $2.3M in Bitcoin to Massachusetts Law Enforcement – Bitcoin News
A man from Brockton, Massachusetts was sentenced to eight years in prison and forced to forfeit 59 bitcoin worth $2.3 million, after he was caught selling Xanax, ecstasy, and ketamine on the deep web....
Dark Web Drug Lord Forfeits $2.3 Million In Bitcoin, Gets 8 Years In Jail
Lots of crazy stuff happen on the dark web on a daily basis. The brains behind a highly sophisticated drug trafficking network was sentenced in federal court in Boston on Friday for making and distrib...