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...
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Plea or life sentence? What to expect from Bankman-Fried trial
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R. Kelly—Already Facing 30 Years In Prison—Asks For Lighter Sentence For Porn Conviction
Topline Attorneys for singer R. Kelly on Friday asked a federal judge in Chicago to limit the sentence for the disgraced singer to 11 years in prison for his conviction last year on child pornography ...
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...
First crypto insider trading case ends with 10-month sentence
In what was called crypto’s first-ever insider trading case, the brother of a former Coinbase employee has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As reported by Reu...
Caroline Ellison Of Alameda Avoids 110-Year Sentence With Plea Agreement.
It is possible that one of the most important witnesses in the current FTX investigation may be able to avoid all seven counts of the charges that have been brought against her by entering into a plea...
Alameda Research’s Caroline Ellison avoids potential 110 sentence with plea deal
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, could potentially avoid all seven counts of allegations against her in the ongoing FTX investigation through a plea deal with the Office of the United...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prison Sentence Could Stretch to 115 Years
(Bloomberg) — Sam Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison if he’s convicted on all eight charges filed by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday — though he’s unlikely to be sentenced to ...
Nicholas Truglia served with 18-month prison sentence: Bloomberg
Nicholas Truglia, the 25-year-old hacker who last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, now faces 18 months in prison, Bloomberg News reported. Truglia had been facing up to 63...
SBF Likely To Get Lighter Sentence If Arrested, Predicts XRP Lawyer
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) led the FTX crash has caused a heavy dent in the digital asset market. As the FTX contagion is on a spread, the crypto community and leaders have called out watchdogs for letti...
Court trial of former Bithumb chief ends with potential 8-year sentence
Former chairman of South Korean firm Bithumb Holdings, Lee Jung-hoon, concluded a court trial on Tuesday. Prosecutors seek a total of eight years in prison on 100 billion won ($70.2 million) fraud cha...
S. Korean Prosecutors Request Eight Year Prison Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman on $70M Fraud Charges
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Former Baseball Executive Eric Kay Gets 22-Year Prison Sentence In Connection With Tyler Skaggs’ Death
Eric Kay (l.) outside of the Texas courthouse earlier this year during his federal drug trial. Kay … [+] was convicted of distributing the fatal drugs that killed pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Copyright...
Ex-NYPD Officer Gets 10 Years Over Jan. 6 Attack—Longest Sentence For Rioter Yet
Topline A retired New York City police officer who once served on former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s detail was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for instigating an attack on a D.C. police ...
Proud Boy At ‘Forefront’ Of Capitol Riots Gets 4 Year Prison Sentence
Topline A member of the far-right Proud Boys group and a former Washington, D.C. bartender was sentenced to 55 months in prison on Monday after he apologized for his role in the riot but continued to ...
DOJ plans to retry Philip Esformes despite Trump commuting sentence
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...
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...
Ghislaine Maxwell Appeals Sex Trafficking Conviction And Sentence
Topline Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has filed an appeal after she was convicted of grooming and trafficking young girls to be abused by sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein and sen...
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...
Attacker In Paris Terrorist Massacre Receives Life Sentence
Topline One of over 20 attackers–the only one believed to have survived–of an Islamic extremist group that attacked the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris received life without the possibility ...
US Prosecutors Call For 1 Year Minimum Prison Sentence on BitMEX Co-founder – crypto.news
US prosecutors believe that Arthur Hayes, the Co-founder of BitMEX, should be jailed for longer than a year after pleading guilty to anti-money laundering violations. Mr. Hayes made a plea deal that s...
Terra ecosystem collapses, Sam Bankman-Fried buys Robinhood stock, and crypto trader receives jail sentence for a ponzi scheme: Hodler’s Digest, May 8-14
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, pr...
US prosecutors recommend minimum 1 year prison sentence for BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes
U.S. Prosecutors have filed a sentencing recommendation in the case against BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes seeking minimum one-year imprisonment. The prosecutors submitted the sentence recommendation ...
Ethereum’s Virgil Griffith Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence
Crypto expert Virgil Griffith was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy. Virgil Griffith Will Serve Time Behind Bars Griffith had been charged with helping No...
Ex-Ethereum dev given 5 year sentence over helping North Korea evade sanctions
Former Ethereum Foundation developer Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to a one-count charge of conspiracy to violate the U.S. International Emergency Economic P...
Cryptocurrency scammers to face the absurd 40,000-year sentence in Turkey
Crypto scammers are on the rise and Turkey looks to punish them Thodex accused would be facing a prison statement of 40,564 years The CEO of the crypto exchange vanished a year ago Turkey is seeking...
Man With Molotov Cocktails On Jan. 6 Gets Nearly 4 Year Prison Sentence. Here’s How That Compares With Others.
Topline Lonnie Coffman, a man who drove to Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, with molotov cocktails, weapons and other ammunition— making him one of the most heavily armed protesters — was sentenced on...
Supreme Tribunal in Venezuela States Sunacrip Has Strategic Role, Voids Earlier Sentence – Bitcoin News
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela has stated in a recent sentence that the tasks developed by Sunacrip, the national cryptocurrency and bitcoin mining watchdog, have a strategic significanc...
Twitter Stock Is Downgraded. Analyst Needs Just One Sentence to Explain Why.
Text size Twitter stock is downgraded given uncertainty over the company’s pending acquisition by Elon Musk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter stock received another downgrade on Friday, fuel...