A grand jury has indicted the former head of product at non-fungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea on wire fraud and money laundering charges after an insider trading scandal. Nathaniel Chastain was ar...
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Bribery Scandal To Cost Glencore $1.1 Billion, While Billionaire Execs Avoid Blame—For Now
Glencore’s former CEO Ivan Glasenberg retired in 2021. Getty Images Marc Rich, the legendary commodities trader, fled the United States for Europe in 1983 after being indicted for trading Iranian oil ...
Prominent entities implicated as whistleblowers lift lid on Terra scandal
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Twitter user @FatManTerra dropped a bombshell on May 23, alleging that the events at Terra LUNA were a criminal act orchestrat...
Milady NFT Prices Fall 55% After Founder Embroiled in Disturbing Scandal
Charlotte Fang, the founder of the popular Milady Maker non-fungible token (NFTs) collection, has allegedly been exposed as a cultist, racist, and child groomer whose actions online may even have led ...
Mark Zuckerberg Could Pay for 2016 Election Scandal Personally
Mark Zuckerberg could be the one to pay for the past sins of Facebook. After Donald Trump’s U.S. Presidential election victory in 2016, Facebook was accused of letting Cambridge Analytica, a co...
New Scandal Reveals Pattern Of U.S. Navy Disregard For Junior Sailors
Enlisted personnel are the heart of the Navy Getty Images In the space of three months, the U.S. Navy has experienced two major scandals concerning the Service’s poor treatment of junior sailors. Comp...
Wall Street’s Latest ‘Market Manipulation’ Scandal Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Crypto
Bill Hwang may be a criminal, or he may have simply been playing the Wall Street game according to a set of unwritten but accepted rules – after all, in this day and age, cheating and lying are practi...
Anatomy Of A Scandal Unseats Bridgerton Season 2 As The No. 1 English-Language TV Series On Netflix
Limited series Anatomy of a Scandal has dethroned Bridgerton Season 2 as the No. 1 English-language … [+] TV series on Netflix. Ana Cristina Blumenkron Bridgerton Season 2 has finally been dethr...
Power, Privilege And Consequence Collide In Netflix Thriller ‘Anatomy Of A Scandal’
Rupert Friend and Sienna Miller in ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ on Netflix. Photo by Ana Cristina Blumenkron for Netflix. Salacious news headlines involving powerful married men having affairs w...
SafeMoon embroiled in further scandal as promoter accused of $12 million fraud
SafeMoon is caught up in further controversy as YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, AKA Coffeezilla makes pump and dump allegations against its former chief marketing officer. Specifically, Findeisen calls ou...
Are Tai Lopez NFTs the market top? Alibaba massage gun scandal… and more
Some in the NFT community fear the market top may be in after Tai Lopez, the controversial entrepreneur and social media star, famous for his oddball marketing tactics, launched his own NFT project. T...
Opensea phishing scandal reveals a security need across the NFT and Digital Assets
OpenSea revealed that it was going to initiate a smart contract upgrade Best way to eliminate the possibility of these attacks is if we start making use of hardware wallets Global NFT sales topped out...
Opensea phishing scandal reveals a security need across the NFT landscape
Despite the ongoing volatility plaguing the digital asset sector, one niche that has undoubtedly continued to flourish is the nonfungible token (NFT) market. This is made evident by the fact that a gr...
Fed Bans Officials From Trading Stocks, Crypto Following Ethics Scandal
Senior staff at the Federal Reserve will no longer be able to hold cryptocurrencies, among other assets such as stocks, according to an announcement today. In a Friday statement from the Federal Open...
Federal Reserve puts new bans on trading in stocks, bonds, crypto or commodities following trading scandal
advertisement The Federal Reserve has barred senior officials from a number of investment activities, particularly those involving individual stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and commodities. The Feder...
UK’s HMRC Makes the First NFT Seizure in Tax Evasion Scandal
The United Kingdom’s tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have arrested three suspected tax evaders and seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), a confiscation that marks the very f...
Figure Skater Kamila Valieva—Gold Medal Favorite—Reportedly At Center Of Russian Drug Scandal At 2022 Olympics
Topline Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drug test at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing on Wednesday, Reuters reports citing two Russian media outlets, putting into question the gold meda...
‘This Circus Needs to Stop Now’: How DeFi Protocol Wonderland Avoided Shutdown After Scandal
The biggest story to hit DeFi this week (and maybe in the past two years) was the revelation that the co-founder of DeFi project Wonderland, 0xSifu, is an alleged serial fraudster with ties to the inf...
Wonderland (TIME) Scandal: Daniele Sestagalli Ignores Community Vote, Announces Project’s Closure
Daniele Sestagalli announced on Sunday that the “Wonderland experiment is coming to an end”, capping a week of high drama for the troubled decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. The disgraced DeFi fou...
Cricket’s Seedy Underbelly Again Haunts The Sport After Brendan Taylor’s Corruption Scandal
Brendan Taylor has been banned for three and a half years. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via … [+] Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Despite its staid connotations, cricket has often been do...
Scandal at Wonderland (TIME) as Treasury Head uncovered as QuadrigaCX co-founder
DeFi protocol Wonderland feels the heat after it was revealed its Treasury Head, also known as Sifu or 0xSifu, is Michael Patryn. Patryn co-founded Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX, which went bankrupt in...
The UK is being viewed through a lens of scandal
The U.K.’s ambitions to position itself as a global power are facing a setback as a string of domestic political dramas continue to distract the government from its international responsibilitie...
Fed’s Outgoing Vice Chair Richard Clarida’s ‘Rebalancing’ Trades Ignite Fed Trading Ethics Scandal – Economics Bitcoin News
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve are getting criticized this week after the central bank published its minutes report from the policy meeting on December 14-15. Following the update, the outgoing v...