Topline A former Virginia police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in the January 6 riot, tying for the most severe sentence for a Capitol riot-rel...
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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...
First BitMEX Employee Pleads Guilty Instead as Co-Founders Avoid Prison
Gregory Dwyer admitted to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act during a change-of-plea hearing All three BitMEX co-founders pleaded guilty to similar charges and avoided prison, instead receivi...
Ahmaud Arbery Shooter—And Killer’s Father—Sentenced To Life In Prison For Second Time
Topline A federal court sentenced Travis and Gregory McMichael—two white men involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger—to life in prison on Monday, after a state court also handed down ...
Ex-Advisor Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Ponzi Scheme
A former financial advisor was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that swindled $9.3 million from investors, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern D...
Woman Behind Bitcoin Murder for Hire Plot Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Jessica Leeann Sledge of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, to ten years in prison on Monday for allegedly attempting to hire an assassin through a da...
ICO Pitchmen Sentenced to Prison for $1.9 Million Crypto Scam
Two crypto founders were sentenced to federal prison Monday for scamming investors out of $1.9 million. According to a release published by the U.S. Attorney’s office in California, Jeremy McAlpine an...
ICO Pitchmen Sentenced to Prison
They are found guilty of a $1.9 Million Crypto Scam McAlpine, Matar, and Dropil did not register DROP with SEC DROP is the ERC-20 token used on the Dropil network Two crypto pioneers were condemned to...
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...
Two Men Bag Three Years in Prison for $1.9M ICO Fraud
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that two men from Orange County who both coordinated a $1.9 million initial coin offering (ICO) fraud have been sentenced to federal pris...
Texas Militia Member Gets 87 Months In Prison For Jan 6. Riots—Longest Sentence So Far
Topline Guy Reffitt, a recruiter for the far-right Texas Three Percenters militia group who prosecutors say brought a semiautomatic pistol and zip ties to the January 6 Capitol attack, was sentenced t...
Latvian Artist Threatened With Prison for Money Laundering Through NFTs – Bitcoin News
An artist from Latvia is under investigation for allegedly selling NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to launder money, for which he may get up to 12 years in prison. The authorities have blocked his bank ...
Bannon Found Guilty Of Contempt Of Congress—Could Face Two Years In Prison
Topline A Washington, D.C., jury found former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of Congress Friday over his failure to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 committee, w...
CEO Of A Crypto Firm, Sentenced For 25-year Prison –
The CEO of a crypto firm is sentenced for 25-year prison for pushing his girlfriend out of 19th-floor Window The identification of this couple is still unknown. According to a news report, the chief o...
‘Real Housewives’ Jen Shah Pleads Guilty—Could Face Up To 14 Years In Prison
Topline Jen Shah, one of the stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City who was facing up to 50 years in prison for running an alleged national telemarketing scheme, pleaded guilty Monday ...
Derek Chauvin Gets 20 Years For Federal Civil Rights Charges In George Floyd’s Death
Topline Derek Chauvin was sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s federal civil rights when he killed Floyd by kneeling on him for close to 10 minutes d...
Alexander Vinnik Serves Prison Term in France but No Freedom in Sight – Bitcoin News
Having served his five-year prison sentence in France, Russian IT and crypto specialist Alexander Vinnik is now facing a return to Greece and possible extradition to the United States. A French cassat...
R. Kelly Placed On Suicide Watch Days After Prison Sentencing, Lawyer Says
Topline R&B singer R. Kelly has been wrongly placed on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said Friday, and he is being “irreparably harmed” beca...
Ex-Georgetown Tennis Coach Gets 2.5 Years—Longest Prison Sentence So Far
Topline Former Georgetown University Tennis Coach Gordon Ernst was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison on Friday for his involvement in the college admissions cheating ring that was busted by federal aut...
Ex-Giuliani Associate Parnas Sentenced To 20 Months In Prison For Fraud And Campaign Finance Violations
Topline Lev Parnas will face 20 months in prison on campaign finance and wire fraud charges, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, closing out a criminal case against a Ukrainian-American businessman whose...
FBI Arrests 2 Men Planning ‘Violent’ Robbery of Bitcoin Worth Millions of Dollars — They Face 20 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested two men who participated “in a violent plan to break into a family’s home in the middle of the night” to steal bitcoin worth tens of millions of ...
BitMEX Co-Founder Benjamin Delo Avoids Prison Time, Receives 30 Months Probation
BitMEX exchange co-founder Benjamin Delo was yesterday sentenced to 30 months probation by a New York federal court for violating the anti-money laundering Banking Secrecy Act, according to The Wall S...
Anti-Vaccine California Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Storming Capitol
Topline Known for spreading anti-vaccine rhetoric and COVID-19 misinformation, former emergency room doctor Simone Gold was sentenced to two months in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6...
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...
Five Big Ideas From The Aspen Health Strategy Group
Our nation has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 10 million people incarcerated each year, yet the health of these individuals is truly an afterthought. We must recognize that their exp...
Chrisleys Are Convicted Of Tax Evasion & Bank Fraud, Don’t Know Best
Todd and Julie Chrisley were indicted in August 2019 on a raft of a federal tax and bank charges, and a new indictment was filed in February of 2022. They were just convicted of all charges by a jury ...
Localbitcoins User Pleads Guilty to Running Unlicensed Crypto Business — Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News
A cryptocurrency trader has been convicted in the U.S. for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business using Localbitcoins and Paxful. He faces up to five years in federal prison and a possibl...
CNBC Reports Terra Founder May Not Go To Prison For LUNA And UST Crash
– Advertisement – Is Terra’s Do Kwon Going To Jail, Or Will He Pay Up? What Are The Options? Recently, Terra Luna’s issues have been a significant subject of discussion on crypto streets...
Ex-OpenSea exec faces up to 20 years in prison over NFT insider trading
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! A former executive of OpenSea, Nate Chastain, faces up to 20 years in jail after being charged with wire fraud, money launderi...
Martin Shkreli, Detested Pharma Bro, Managed to Buy Crypto in Prison
Martin Shkreli, known fondly as “The most hated businessman in the United States” bought cryptocurrency while incarcerated. American entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, known for speculating on the cost of d...
Arthur Hayes Avoids Prison for Violating US Bank Secrecy Act
Benjamin Dalo and Sam Reed also pleaded guilty Two other co-founders have also been ordered to pay $10 million each BitMEX was founded in 2014, the parent company is HDR Global Trading Bitmex prime su...
Russian Soldier Sentenced To Life In Prison, Setting The Stage For Dozens More War Crimes Trials In Ukraine
Topline Ukraine on Monday sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a 62-year-old unarmed citizen, marking an end to the first war-crimes trial since Russia began its invas...