Six people involved in a cryptocurrency “Ponzi scheme” that raked in about $100 million over five years have pled guilty to a series of fraud and money laundering charges, each carrying a maximum sent...
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L.A. Man Faces 21 Years In Prison After Pleading Guilty To Shooting Lady Gaga’s Dog Walker
Topline A Los Angeles man who shot a dog walker working for singer Lady Gaga and stole her French bulldogs last year was sentenced to 21 years in prison as part of a plea agreement, the Los Angeles Co...
Former BitMEX Executive Faces Up to Five Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Violating Bank Secrecy Act
A high-ranking BitMEX employee is pleading guilty to violating the US’s Banking Secrecy Act, the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the embattled crypto exchange. In his plea, Gregory Dwyer admi...
California Men Sentenced to Prison after Pleading Guilty to $1.9M Crypto Scam
The California duo ran a crypto scam operation for more than two years and are now set to serve a cumulative sentence of over 4 years. A pair of men in California got slammed with prison sentences for...
Crypto Clients Pleading for Funds Payback after Lender Celsius’ Crash
Customers caught in the meltdown of crypto lending firm Celsius Networks are pleading for their deposits to be paid back. Hundreds of letters have poured into the judge overseeing the company’s ...
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Asks For No Jail Time After Pleading Guilty
Arthur Hayes, the former CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX, who pleaded guilty to violating the United States Bank Secrecy Act, is asking the court for no jail time and ...
Major Airlines Are Pleading To Drop Mask Mandates On Planes
NurPhoto via Getty Images The CEOs of major U.S. airlines wrote a letter to President Joe Biden requesting that he drop the mask mandate on planes and testing requirements for arriving international t...
‘Immediate Risk’ Of Putin Nuclear Power Plant Plot, Says Ukraine Energy CEO Pleading For No-Fly Zone
DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko at a conference in Kyiv, October 2021. Future Publishing via Getty Images For CEO Maxim Timchenko, the war started on February 22 when shells exploded at a coal-burning power ...