Topline A man convicted of murdering eight people on a Manhattan bike path in 2017 was sentenced Monday to life in prison on first-degree murder charges, after a New York City jury returned a split de...
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Revised Bill Suggests Prison Time for Russian Crypto Miners Evading Taxation – Mining Bitcoin News
A draft law designed to regulate crypto mining in Russia introduces harsh penalties for miners failing to report digital assets to the state. In its latest revision, the bill also threatens to punish ...
Not Declaring Profits Could Result in Prison
A new Russian crypto mining bill proposes sending individuals who fail to declare profits derived from mining to prison. The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed imprisoning miners who fail to dec...
AirBit Club execs face decades in prison after pleading guilty to $100M fraud
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...
Russian Court Sends 3 Crypto Robbers to Strict-Regime Prison – Bitcoin News
Three Russians are going to spend time in high-security prison for stealing over a million U.S. dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from another man. In addition, the court has also ordered them to fully...
US Sentences Man to 3 Years in Prison for Defrauding Investors in Crypto Mining Scheme – Bitcoin News
A U.S. district judge has sentenced a man to three years in prison in a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining scheme. The defendant “misappropriated his victims’ money and failed to provide them with the m...
Harvey Weinstein Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison On L.A. Sexual Assault Charges
Topline Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison after being convicted in Los Angeles in December of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault, ad...
Nipsey Hussle’s Killer Eric R. Holder Jr. Sentenced To 60 Years In Prison
Topline Eric R. Holder Jr., the 32-year-old man who killed rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle, was sentenced to 60 years in prison Wednesday, nearly four years after the Grammy-nominated artist was sho...
Alec Baldwin’s Charges Downgraded, Lessening Possible Prison Time
Topline Prosecutors who charged Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust dropped a firearm enhancement that mandated he spend ...
‘Cryptoqueen’ Boyfriend Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Laundering $300,000,000 in Crypto
The ex-boyfriend of the infamous “Cryptoqueen” has been sentenced to five years in prison for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. A new report by Bloomberg Law says that Gilbert Armenta, the f...
Cryptoqueen Ex-Boyfriend Slapped With 5 Years Prison Sentence
The ex-boyfriend of fugitive Ruja Ignatova (also known as Cryptoqueen) was sentenced to five years in prison for laundering $300 million in earnings from investors of the bogus crypto venture, OneCoin...
Onecoin Cryptoqueen’s Ex-boyfriend Gets 5 Years in Prison – Bitcoin News
A former boyfriend of Ruja Ignatova, the mastermind of the Ponzi scheme Onecoin, has received five years in prison. The sentence is for the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of proc...
Cryptoqueen’s Ex-Boyfriend Sent to Prison for 5 Years (Report)
Gilbert Armenta – the former boyfriend of Ruja Ignatova (more famous as the “Cryptoqueen”) – will reportedly spend five years in jail for participating in the fraudulent cryptocurrency project OneCoin...
UK watchdog warns crypto firms of tougher rules with prison penalties
Listen to this article. The UK’s top financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has kicked off 2023 with strict warnings for the tech and crypto sectors, amid concerns that the cost of...
Oxford Student Goes to Prison for Stealing $2.6M Via a Crypto Scam
Wybo Wiersma – a 40-year-old Dutchman who studied at Oxford’s St Cross College – will serve a 54-month prison sentence for stealing £2,156,000 (more than $2.6 million) using a cryptocurrency scheme. U...
Founder of Crypto Scheme My Big Coin to Serve Over 8 Years in Prison
Randall Crater – the Founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency business “My Big Coin” – will spend 100 months in jail. Federal prosecutors previously insisted his punishment should have been 13 years....
My Big Coin founder sentenced to 8 years in prison for fraud
My Big Coin founder Randall Crater has been found guilty of committing wired fraud and unlawful monetary transactions. He is sentenced to 100 months in jail and $7.6 million in fines. My Big Coin frau...
Philip Esformes, whose prison sentence Trump commuted, loses appeal
Philanthropist Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. Tiffany Rose | Getty I...
Crypto rapper Razzlekhan lands new job despite facing 25 years in prison
Listen to this article. Heather Morgan, AKA Razzlekhan, AKA The Crocodile of Wall Street has reportedly found a new job despite still being under house arrest for her alleged role in 2016’s $4.5 billi...
Coinbase Insider Trader Gets 10 Months In Prison
The brother of a former Coinbase product manager has been sentenced to 10 months’ prison after earning almost $900,000 in a crypto insider trading scheme. US authorities charged Nikhil Wahi last July,...
Ex-Coinbase Manager’s Brother Sentenced to Prison in Crypto Insider Trading Case – Regulation Bitcoin News
A former Coinbase employee’s brother has been sentenced to 10 months in prison in what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) called a “groundbreaking cryptocurrency insider trading case.” ‘Groundbreaki...
Brother of Former Coinbase Manager Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison
Nikhil Wahi – brother to former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi – has been sentenced to 10 months in prison following his guilty plea to leveraging his familial connection for insider trading of c...
Coinbase: Man sentenced to prison over first crypto insider trading case
The brother of a former Coinbase manager has been sentenced to prison for cryptocurrency insider trading The individual was charged with committing the crime in July 2022 alongside two other individua...
Hacker Sent to Prison for Robbing Vietnamese Crypto Exchange – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Authorities in Vietnam have caught and sentenced a hacker who stole money and data from a local cryptocurrency exchange. The man, who was arrested and charged for extorting the trading platform’s owne...
Ohio Man Steals Over $12,000,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) From IRS, Faces 40 Years in Prison: Report
An Ohio man is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to stealing millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to a new press release from the ...
‘Real Housewives’ Star Jen Shah Sentenced To 6.5 Years In Prison For Wire Fraud
Topline Jen Shah, one of the stars of Bravo’s Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City, was sentenced Friday to 6.5 years in prison and five years of supervised release for her role in a telemarketing scheme...
College Admissions Scandal Mastermind Rick Singer Sentenced To 3.5 Years In Prison
Topline Rick Singer—the mastermind behind the so-called Varsity Blues college admissions cheating scandal—was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to 42 months in prison, the latest jail sentence i...
Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Co-Conspirator Sentenced To Nearly 20 Years In Prison
Topline A federal judge sentenced a leader of the failed plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 19 years and seven months in prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence imposed in the investig...
Sam Bankman-Fried Enjoyed Cozy Stay In Bahamas Prison
Perhaps, it won’t matter now and things might be different once Sam Bankman-Fried settles himself in a detention facility outside of the Bahamas jurisdiction, where he once afforded special treatment....
Sam Bankman-Fried arrived in the US: Prison time soon?
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, flew from the Bahamas to New York to answer allegations of fraud. Two of his former colleagues already pleaded guilty to r...