SEC and Justice Department: Silicon Valley Bank investigation

People queue up outside the headquarters of Silicon Valley Bank to withdraw their funds on March 13, 2023 in Santa Clara, California.  Liu Guanguan | China News Service | Getty Images The Securities a...

TerraUSD: Why The U.S. Justice Department Is Now Probing The Stablecoin’s Collapse

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the 2022 collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin and is considering bringing criminal charges against the coin’s creator, Do Kwon, as reported by the Wall Stre...

U.S Justice Department Investigates TerraUSD Stablecoin Collapse

The US Justice Department is investigating last year’s collapse of TerraClassicUSD (USTD) stablecoin. The investigation raises the possibility of filing U.S. criminal charges against the South Korean ...

Justice Department investigating collapse of Do Kwon’s TerraUSD stablecoin: WSJ

Ad The U.S. Justice Department has opened a probe into the collapse of Do Kwon’s TerraUSD stablecoin, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The investigation is said to target former team member...

Justice Department Probe Into the TerraUSD Crash

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. Former team members b...

Justice Department investigating collapse of TerraUSD, WSJ says

The Justice Department is investigating the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources. Terraform Labs and its CEO Do Hyeong Kwon are already facing ci...

US Justice Department is reportedly investigating TerraUSD (UST) collapse

FBI and SDNY are probing the collapse of Terra’s algo-stablecoin – UST The agencies investigation is on similar lines as that of the SEC, which charged Do Kwon for committing securities fraud The Unit...

U.S. Department of Justice Appeals Court Decision Approving $1,300,000,000 Voyager Acquisition

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing a recent court decision that approved Binance.US’ acquisition of embattled crypto lender Voyager Digital. In a new court filing, the DOJ is appealing ...

Oscar-Nominated ‘Argentina 1985’ Inspired By Justice And Democracy, Says Director Santiago Mitre

Santiago Mitre poses with the Golden Globe award for Best Picture – Non-English Language for … [+] “Argentina, 1985” on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by...

Justice Department To Review Memphis Police Following Tyre Nichols Arrest

Topline The Justice Department will review the Memphis Police Department, as well as the use of specialized police units nationally, after five officers from a special unit were charged with second-de...

Justice Department Pushes for Independent Investigation of FTX Collapse

The U.S. Trustee in FTX’s bankruptcy case pushed back against a recent court order by Judge John Dorsey Monday, filing an appeal against the judge’s decision not to appoint an independent examiner to ...

International Court Of Justice Orders Azerbaijan To End Nagorno-Karabakh Roadblock

On February 22, 2023, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, ordered provisional measures to ensure that Azerbaijan ends the blockage of the Lach...

Dutch Court Prosecuting First-Ever Case For Enslaving Yazidis In Syria

On February 14 and 15, 2023, a Rotterdam court, the District Court of The Hague, held the first pro forma hearings against twelve women that the Dutch government brought back from a prison camp in Syr...

Justice Department probes Silvergate’s relationship with FTX: Bloomberg

The Justice Department’s fraud department has begun probing Silvergate’s handling of accounts for Sam Bankman-Fried’s firms, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. T...

South Korean Ministry of Justice Introducing Cryptocurrency Tracking System

Cryptocurrencies become an easy bait for illicit actors to carry on their acts including frauds and money laundering. Financial regulators try to keep watch on such activities and ensure that companie...

Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns

Topline The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing scrutiny for potential conflict of interests after a former colleague warned the Justice Department and Congress about her role a...

Justice Dept defends motion to bar SBF from accessing FTX, Alameda assets

United States prosecutors in the criminal case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried have released text and email messages from SBF to current CEO John Ray. In court documents released on Jan. 30, ...

South Korea’s Ministry of Justice to enforce crypto tracking system in H1 2023

The Ministry of Justice in South Korea, through a Government Business Report released on Jan. 26, announced the primer of a ‘virtual currency tracking system’ to curb money laundering and recovery of ...

US Justice Department seizes website of prolific ransomware gang Hive

According to United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray on Jan. 26, international law enforcement groups have dismantled the infamous Hive cryptocurrency ransomware gang. ...

German Federal Court Of Justice Confirms The First-Ever Conviction Of A Daesh Member For Genocide

On January 17, 2023, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the conviction against Daesh member Taha A.-J. for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Yazidi victims ...

Google to Face Fresh Lawsuit from US Department of Justice

Tech giants including Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple are also being grilled for their acquisition of smaller rivals in a bid to squash out competition. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ)...

Justice Department sues Google to break up its advertising empire

The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Tuesday, seeking the breakup of the company’s online ad business. This latest action co...

Germany Calls For A Tribunal For Putin’s Crime Of Aggression

On January 16, 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for aggression in The Hague. Foreign Minister Baerbock em...

Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary ‘Justice’ Debuts At Sundance: Here’s What To Know

Topline Filmmaker Doug Liman’s documentary on the controversial appointment and sexual assault claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—kept quiet before it’s surprise premiere at the Sund...

Why There Is No Political Will To Bring Daesh To Justice?

On January 23, 2022, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, is to debate and vote on the report and draft resolution on “Addressing...

Binance implicated in Bitzlato US Justice Department prosecution

On Wednesday, the U.S. authorities accused the little-known cryptocurrency exchange, Bitzlato, of laundering $700 million and named Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, as a counterpart...

The Department of Justice charges the founder of Bitzlato with the unlicensed money transmitting

The US Department of Justice has arrested and charged Anatoly Legkodymov for transmitting money without any license. If convicted, Anatoly Legkodymov faces a prison time of up to 5 years. Bitzlato is ...

The US Department of Justice against crypto- The Cryptonomist

Yesterday the US Department of Justice, i.e., the US ministry that is responsible for justice, released an announcement regarding a major international action in the crypto sector.  The announcement w...

Summary of 18th January’s Department of Justice (DOJ) conference from a Crypto perspective – Cryptopolitan

The cryptocurrency industry has grown massively in the last few years to the extent that lawmakers and government watchdogs around the world are seriously concerned about its negative effect on the wo...

Justice Department Declined Using FBI For Biden Document Search, Report Says

Topline The Justice Department recently decided against calling in FBI agents to monitor searches of President Joe Biden’s homes for classified documents, according to the Wall Street Journal, after r...

Putin’s War Crimes Could Be Prosecuted In The United States

On Thursday, January 5, 2023, President Joe Biden signed into law the bipartisan Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act (S. 4240), which expands the scope of individuals subject to prosecution for war ...

Four US Senators Urge Independent Investigation of FTX and Related Companies To Ensure Justice

Four US senators are urging a federal bankruptcy judge to rule in favor of having an independent examiner investigate FTX and its related companies. US Senators John Hickenlooper, Thom Tillis, Elizabe...