SBF slapped with $250M bail bond; FTX co-conspirators take plea deal; SEC declares FTT a security -CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily

The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Dec. 22 is dominated by FTX news as SBF lands in the US and is granted bail pursuant to house arrest, Caroline Ellison takes plea deal to avoid jail, Tornado Ca...

Alameda’s Caroline Ellison Enters Plea Agreement with DOJ

Key Takeaways Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is entering a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. The Southern District of New York is promising $250,000 bail and no further FTX-re...

Alameda Research’s Caroline Ellison avoids potential 110 sentence with plea deal

Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, could potentially avoid all seven counts of allegations against her in the ongoing FTX investigation through a plea deal with the Office of the United...

Alameda’s Caroline Ellison escapes potentially 110 years in jail via plea deal

One of the key witnesses on the ongoing FTX investigation could evade all the seven counts of allegations against her with a plea deal. Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison would be prosecuted...

US Attorney Announces Guilty Plea of Silk Road Criminal

Silk Road fraudster James Zhong pleaded guilty to stealing 50,000 BTC from the Silk Road darknet marketplace in 2012. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Zhong created 140 transactions that caus...

Court Rejects Former OpenSea Employee’s Plea To Dismiss Allegations

2 hours ago | 2 mins read NFT News The government claims Chastain unlawfully benefited from the sale of NFTs. OpenSea decided to end its partnership with Chastain after learning about the probe. A for...

Hodlnaut Managers Release Circular to Creditors After Removal Plea

In an update on Oct. 12, the judicial managers of troubled crypto lender Hodlnaut released their sixth circular to creditors. In the update, the interim judicial managers refer to a previous applicati...

MicroStrategy Send Plea to Bitcoin Lightning Engineers to Work on the SaaS Project – crypto.news

A wide range of companies have entered the crypto-verse. While some feel discouraged in the middle, most have increased their involvement. MicroStrategy has become a significant Bitcoin vulnerability ...

Did the Celsius liquidity plea trigger CEL’s 34% freefall?

Crypto lending firm Celsius [CEL] seems to be committed to restoring its lost reputations and getting back to full operation. In its latest filing with the New York Southern District Bankruptcy Court,...

Ex-Coinbase Manager’s Brother Takes a Plea Bargain in Insider Trading Case

Both Nikhil and Ishan Wahi had initially pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges Ishan Wahi’s lawyer told Blockworks last month that there were “strong grounds for motions to dismiss” The siblin...

First Guilty Plea in Coinbase-Related Insider Trading Charges

Wahi is the brother of former Coinbase (COIN) product manager Ishan Wahi. The Wahi brothers were arrested in late July, charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) with wire fraud and insider trading –...

Court Approves Celsius Plea To Sell Mined BTC To Fund Operational Expenses  – crypto.news

As per recent reports, a US bankruptcy court has given the crypto lending platform Celsius the green light to sell its mined Bitcoin. The company told the court that it needed the funds for its operat...

Brittney Griner Sends Handwritten Plea To Biden, Agent Says

Topline WNBA star Brittney Griner sent President Joe Biden a handwritten letter asking him to “do all you can” to bring her and other U.S. detainees home from Russia, Griner’s agents said Monday, thre...

BitMEX’s Delo Will Not Face Prison After Guilty Plea

A spokesperson from Smith Villazor, the firm representing Delo, said, “We are pleased that the Court appropriately rejected the government’s cynical attempt to exaggerate the seriousness of the Bank S...

A Defense Attorney Explains Why Michael Peterson Took An Alford Plea

Attorney David Rudolf with Michael Peterson in court. Photo Courtesy of Netflix. Michael Peterson has consistently maintained his innocence in the 2001 death of his wife, Kathleen. He’s told many a st...

Couple accused of laundering Bitfinex hack proceeds reportedly seeks plea deal

The case hearing for the couple involved in laundering money for the Bitfinex hack has been postponed. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were accused of being involved in the Bitfinex hack...

The Latest Oath Keeper’s Seditious Plea Today Goals To A Trump-Skeptical Judge

An Oath Keeper, Brian Ulrich, pled guilty on Friday to seditious conspiracy during the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. His cooperation with the criminal investigation and the anticipated trial ...

Crypto Capital exec plans to enter open plea in ongoing fraud case

Reginald Fowler, who sits at the center of a banking fraud case brought by the US government, is seeking to forego his right to trial. Fowler stands accused of engaging in “shadow banking”...

Beanstalk Farms offers plea deal to perpetrators of $76M exploit

Beanstalk Farms, a credit-based stablecoin protocol exploited for around $76 million in crypto on April 18, has offered a bounty of 10% if the attackers return the funds.  The offer was posted on the ...

Stablecoin Tether Disregards Ukraine’s Plea to Halt Russian Use

Tie said it sticks to worldwide assets on Russia Ukrainians requested that Tether stop every single Russian exchange USDT Price at the time of writing – $1.00 Tie, the crypto stablecoin that has...

Third BitMEX Founder To Pay $10M Fine After AML Guilty Plea

BitMEX co-founder Samuel Reed pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering offenses and agreed to pay a $10 million fine, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office on Thursday. Reed is the exc...

Bitfinex hack, arrested for plea bargaining- The Cryptonomist

One of the two arrested for laundering Bitcoins from the hack at Bitfnex could ask for a plea bargain and avoid trial. That would bring to an early close the legal case that saw the largest Bitcoin se...

Crypto Donations Pour in After Ukrainian Government’s Plea: NGOs and Government Raised $14.2 million 

Elliptic, a blockchain analysis company, reveals that the Ukrainian government and non-governmental organizations(NGOs) raised around $14.2 million in anonymous crypto donations.  As stated previously...