Crypto CEO pleads guilty to $250 million scam, SDNY says

Eddy Alexandre, the CEO of a purported cryptocurrency and currency trading platform called EminiFX, pleaded guilty to one count of commodities fraud and agreed to forfeit $248.8 million in addition to...

SDNY Wants SEC, CFTC To Postpone Cases Against Bankman-Fried

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to postpone their cases against the disg...

Sources claim FTX investigation could exhaust the SDNY court

The criminal investigation into the fraud committed by the FTX exchange and its CEO Sam Bankman-Fried could be a lot more complex than lawmakers anticipated. Prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for...

SDNY Establishes Special Group to Find FTX Funds

The SDNY has established a special force in order to deal with FTX’s aftermath – and find the money! The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced on Jan. ...

SDNY Launches FTX Task Force To Investigate and Recover Victim Funds

The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District Of New York (SDNY) has announced the formation of an FTX task force to handle further investigations and prosecutions related to FTX. “The Southern...

SDNY FTX Task Force Will Look for Lost Customer Funds in FTX Collapse

The US Attorney Damian Williams reportedly announced a task force to look over the case of crypto exchange FTX collapse. Williams is the federal prosecutor in FTX’s case including founder Sam-Bankman ...

SDNY launches FTX Task Force to recover funds

The Southern District of New York has created a task force intending to recoup lost FTX assets, according to a report published by CNBC on Jan. 3. That effort, called the FTX Task Force, will work to ...

‘You can commit fraud in shorts and T-shirts in the sun,’ says SDNY attorney on SBF indictment

Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the investigation leading to charges against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had been “very, very fast” but prosecu...

SBF accused of 8 criminal charges in SDNY indictment

The indictment filed by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Damian Williams for the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried includes eight criminal charges. The charges includ...

Former SDNY prosecutor breaks down crypto’s first insider trading case

Episode 62 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Darin Feinstein, Ian McGinley, former U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY . Listen below, and subscribe to...

Feds Reportedly Launch Criminal Probe Into Wells Fargo Following Allegations Of Sham Job Interviews

Topline Federal civil rights prosecutors are investigating Wells Fargo’s hiring practices, the New York Times reported Thursday, weeks after the paper revealed some Wells Fargo managers had conducted ...