US government officials informed a Delaware virtual court hearing that they would be seizing various assets linked to the bankrupt crypto firm FTX, including around $500 million in Robinhood shares. S...
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US Hedge Funds Receive Subpoenas Over Communications With Binance As Investigators Probe Crypto Exchange: Report
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is reportedly being investigated by federal prosecutors, which has led to multiple American hedge funds being subpoenaed by the Western District of Washin...
US Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report
Recently, Binance has made efforts to increase its commitment to compliance, growing its security and compliance staff by 500% in 2022. Additionally, last fall the company assembled a global advisory ...
U.S. Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report
Federal prosecutors are investigating the relationship between Binance and U.S.-based hedge funds as part of a broader investigation into the cryptocurrency exchange’s possible skirting of money...
Romania Carries Out Raids as Part of Crypto Tax Evasion Probe – Taxes Bitcoin News
Authorities in Romania have conducted more than a dozen raids against people suspected of hiding income from cryptocurrency operations. The searches took place in late 2022 following an earlier invest...
Hedge funds subpoenaed by U.S. prosecutors as Binance probe unfolds: Report
United States prosecutors are investigating hedge funds’ relationships with cryptocurrency exchange Binance for money-laundering violations. According to anonymous sources cited by the Washingto...
Federal Prosecutors in New York Probe Digital Currency Group and Subsidiary Genesis – Bitcoin News
Following accusations from Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss in an open letter to Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert, a report citing “people familiar with the matter” states that federal pro...
U.S Prosecutors Probe Former FTX Engineer Nishad Singh; a Huge Blow To SBF?
United States federal prosecutors in Manhattan are closing in on SBF’s inner circle with the latest being Nishad Singh, a high-profile FTX director of engineering. If found guilty, Singh could be char...
US Prosecutors Likely to Probe SBF’s Alameda-linked Accounts
2023 is here, but Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) problems may not leave his side any time soon. As the United States authorities are planning to investigate against the accounts that may be linked with SBF...
SEC Heightens Probe Into Auditors Servicing Crypto Exchanges – Bitcoin News
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Paul Munter, the agency’s acting chief accountant, the U.S. regulator is monitoring proof-of-reserves (POR) more closely. “We’re warning inve...
Judge pauses SEC case in favor of criminal probe
Your Hometown Deli in Paulsboro, N.J. Google Earth A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to pause the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil case regarding alleged f...
Boston Marathon Winner Diana Kipyokei Stripped Of 2021 Title After Doping Probe
Topline Elite runner Diana Kipyokei of Kenya was stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title and banned from the race for six years for using prohibited substances, the Athletics Integrity Unit announc...
Federal Prosecutors Probe Democrats Over Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried – Regulation Bitcoin News
Several members of the U.S. Democratic Party and campaign committees are reportedly being probed by federal prosecutors over donations from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and another executive...
Pro-Crypto EU Lawmaker Eva Kaili Set to Lose Vice-Presidency Amid Corruption Probe
“I have stripped the Vice-President mentioned of any tasks and responsibilities related to their role as Vice-President,” Metsola told lawmakers Monday, without mentioning Kaili by name. A meeting of ...
Binance Now At High Risk Of Facing Sanctions Charges: US Probe
Binance Money Laundering Probe Sanctions News: While the crypto market continues to struggle after the FTX related contagion effect, top exchange Binance could be headed for trouble. According to late...
Caroline Ellison Hires SEC’s Former Top Crypto Cop for FTX probe
(Bloomberg) — Ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has hired a former SEC official who oversaw many of the regulator’s biggest crypto cases as her lawyer in the federal probe into cryptocurr...
Caroline Ellison hires former SEC crypto regulator as lawyer for FTX probe: Bloomberg
Former Alameda Research head Caroline Ellison hired a former crypto regulator at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to represent her in an ongoing federal probe into the collapse of the FTX e...
FTX’s Bankman-Fried to face market manipulation probe, Do Kwon chimes in
United States federal prosecutors have reportedly begun investigating whether the collapse of the Terra ecosystem was in fact triggered by market manipulation tactics by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fri...
US Rep Maxine Says A Subpoena On FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Is “On The Table” As Calls For His Probe Intensify ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters has confirmed they will subpoena Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) if the disgraced ex-FTX CEO fails to ...
FTX probe has feds wondering if SBF brought down Terra
US prosecutors in Manhattan are said to be probing Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) involvement in the collapse of stablecoin terraUSD and its sister token, luna. According to sources close to the matter, SB...
Federal Prosecutors Probe FTX Founder’s Role In UST Collapse
While the crypto market still hasn’t fully digested the insolvency of FTX, U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried played a role in the collapse of TerraUSD (U...
U.S. FTC Begins Probe on Crypto Ad Misconduct
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun a probe on a number of crypto firms on the matter of possible ad misconduct for public materials which may have misrepresented facts and clai...
Crypto firms under probe by U.S. consumer watchdog for deceptive ads
The United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing several crypto firms for potentially fraudulent or misleading advertising. According to FTC spokesperson Juliana Gruenwald, the agency is l...
FTX was the ‘fastest’ corporate failure in US history — Trustee calls for probe
The United States Trustee handling FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings has referred to the now-defunct exchange as the “fastest big corporate failure in American history,” and is calling for an independent p...
Binance, Coinbase, Kraken ordered to disclose user data in hack probe: FT
Six exchanges — including Binance, Coinbase, Luno and Kraken — will have to share user data to help trace $10.7 million in funds stolen from an unnamed UK-based exchange in 2020. London’s High C...
US House Committee to probe FTX collapse on December 13, 2022
Congresswoman Water has announced the date when the House Committee on Financial Services would start investigating the FTX crash. The meeting was scheduled to start by 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, December...
FTX Fallout Led Parliament Probe Into Singapore Government
Editors News Singapore government-owned Temasek writes off its investment of $275M on 17 Nov. Officials would face lots of questions by parliamentary over the losses by Temasek. The effects of Sam Ban...
State Securities Regulators Probe Crypto Lender Genesis – Regulation Bitcoin News
State securities regulators are reportedly investigating Genesis Global Capital in a broad range probe into the “interconnectedness of crypto firms,” Barron’s reported on Friday. The report notes that...