News with the tag "department of justice"

The U.S. Department of Justice says the financial scheme of a terrorist organization was disrupted after authorities confiscated a substantial amount of the group’s crypto funds. In a statement , the DOJ announces the seizure of $201,400 in USDT held in wallets and accounts set up to support the act...

Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin struck a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday that will see him serve no more than 24 months behind bars for his role in what prosecutors described as a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to manipulate token prices for paying clients. Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian ...

Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national, was extradited to the U.S. on Tuesday to face fraud charges stemming from allegations that his firm participated in a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to manipulate token prices for paying client cryptocurrency companies, the U.S. Department...

The possibility of FTX’s co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) being released from prison has arisen again. This comes following his latch ditch political efforts to gain a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks To Gain Favor From Donald Trump Sam Bankman-Fried is looking to get...

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is tasked with managing assets seized by law enforcement in the course of criminal investigations, like real estate, cash, jewelry, antiques or vehicles. It is also supposed to be handling cryptocurrencies — for example, the billions of dollars worth of bitcoin (BTC)...

The Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Washington revealed that two Estonian nations had pleaded guilty to a $577M crypto Ponzi scheme. The two had victimized hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, including the United States, through their multi-faceted scheme. Sergei Potapenko and Iv...

A progressive think tank is asking the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe the legality of President Donald Trump’s new memecoin. The president launched the Official Trump ( TRUMP ) memecoin in mid-January, days before he took office. The controversial crypto asset rapidly skyrocketed in value...

Three Russian nationals tied to operating sanctioned crypto mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io have been charged with money laundering by a federal grand jury in Georgia, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday . Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko and Alexander Evgenievich Oleyni...

For the outside world, bitcoin (BTC) dropping $10,000 to $92,000, in a matter of days could signal the end of the bull run. A caveat to this could be that bitcoin continues to consolidate below a key psychological $100,000 threshold. Unconfirmed reports from DB News suggest that the Department of Ju...

The US govt has dumped a massive 69,370 Bitcoins, worth a massive $6.7 billion, seized from the popular darknet marketplace Silk Road. This comes as the US Department of Justice (DoJ) approved clearing the prolonged dispute of BTC claims by Battle Born Investments. This has led investors to question...