A woman in Mississippi has been sentenced to ten years in prison after she reportedly paid as much as $10K in bitcoin to a hitman she wanted to hire to kill her ex-husband. 40-year-old Jessica Leeann ...
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Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar Sentenced for Roles in Crypto Scam
Two men hailing from Orange County have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a crypto scam that may have cheated investors out of nearly $2 million. Sentencing was passed to Jeremy David ...
January 6 Rioter Sentenced To 3.5 Years For Assaulting Officers
Topline A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Friday for assaulting police officers during the Capitol insurrection, including with a flagpole bearing a Trump flag, w...
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...
Brittney Griner Sentenced To 9 Years For Drug Charges By Russian Court
Topline A Russian court on Thursday sentenced WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug possession and smuggling, after Russia made a “bad faith” response to a U.S. offer for a prison...
Dropil Founders Sentenced In A $1.9 Million ICO Fraud
Founders of Dropil, a defunct digital assets company, Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar, are convicted in a U.S Federal prison. They are reportedly involved in an ICO scam that defrauded more than 2,0...
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...
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...
Netflix ‘Cheer’ Star Jerry Harris Sentenced To 12 Years For Sex Crimes
Topline A federal judge in Chicago sentenced Jerry Harris – star of the 2020 Netflix documentary series “Cheer” – to 12 years in prison on Wednesday after the 22-year-old cheerleader pleaded guilty to...
R. Kelly Sentenced To 30 Years For Sex Trafficking And Racketeering
Topline Singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday, after being convicted last year on several counts of sex trafficking and other related crimes following accusations that have tra...
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...
BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo sentenced to 30 months probation
BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo received 30 months probation without home confinement for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations. The sentencing closes a legal chapter that began in the fall of 2020, when ...
BitMEX Co-founder Benjamin Delo Sentenced to 2.5 Years’ Probation Term
11 hours ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Delo will spend his probation in Hong Kong before returning to his wife. Prosecutors allege that the three failed KYC processes for their U.S. client base. Acc...
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...
Avenatti Sentenced To 4 Years Over Stormy Daniels Theft
Topline Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels—who spoke out about hush money she took to keep quiet about an affair with Donald Trump—was sentenced to four years ...
Father-Son Duo Sentenced for Laundering Cash with Bitcoin in Weed Scheme
In brief Pair convicted of laundering over $100,000 from sales using Bitcoin and dark web Unlicensed company manufactured hash oil and other marijuana products The Department of Justice announced the ...
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...
Why was BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes sentenced to six months of home detention?
The home detention that Arthur Hayes has been sentenced to he’s accepting in order to avoid his jail time. One of the founders of leading crypto exchange firm BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, avoided his j...
BitMEX Co-founder Sentenced 2 Years’ Probation and 6 Months House Arrest
32 seconds ago | 2 mins read Editors News In June, there will be a hearing for Hayes co-founders who admitted guilt with Hayes. Hayes, Delo, and Reed have each been fined $10 million. After being conv...
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Avoids Prison Time, Sentenced to 2 Years Probation
The co-founder and former CEO of the crypto derivatives platform BitMEX was sentenced to two years of probation, with the first six months to be spent in home confinement. In late 2020, the Commodity ...
Arthur Hayes Sentenced to Two Years’ Probation, Six Months House Arrest
Key Takeaways BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has been sentenced to two years’ probation and six months of home detention by a federal court in New York. Hayes pled guilty in February to violating the ...
Crypto Trader Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for $5 Million Fraud
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has sentenced a 25-year-old Rhode Island cryptocurrency trader, popularly known as Coin Signals, to 42 months in prison for defrauding over 170 people of ...
Crypto Trader Sentenced To 42 Months Prison For Fraud, Claimed To Make Profits
The U.S. DOJ recently sentenced an unethical actor to prison as he coaxed folks to hand him crypto, which he would invest. He represented profits on his accounts when he was actually incurring m...
Ousted Myanmar Leader Suu Kyi Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Corruption
Topline A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison in the first of several corruption cases brought against her by the country’s military junta that...
Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5-Year Jail for Helping Individuals in North Korea Evade Sanctions
The strong hands of the law have been stretched to Virgil Griffith, an American national and one of the Ethereum core programmers, who is sentenced to 63 months in jail by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin...
Ethereum Developer, Virgil Griffith, to Be Sentenced in New York Court –
Griffith was arrested in November 2019 Griffith has also been fined up to $1,000,000 His attorneys have not commented publicly on their client’s decision Previous Ethereum engineer Virgil Griffith is...
Virgil Griffith Sentenced to Five Years – Trustnodes
Virgil Griffith (pictured), a senior employee at the Ethereum Foundation, has been sentenced to five years in prison following his arrest in November 2019 after visiting North Korea. “Griffith began f...
Sanctions Evasion: Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith sentenced to 63 months jail for helping North Korea
TL;DR Breakdown Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith was tried for various allegations. Griffith attended a conference in Pyongyang regarding cryptocurrency, helping North Korea in sanctions evas...