As Trial Opens, FTX’s Bankman-Fried Battles Excess Insurer Over D&O Coverage October 4, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Just two days before his criminal trial started this week in federal court in New York, FTX Trading founder Sam...
FTX Sues Bankman-Fried, Others to Recoup More Than $1 Billion July 21, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel FTX Trading on Thursday sued founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other former executives of the cryptocurrency exchange, seeking to recoup more...
Founder of Crypto Lender Celsius Network Arrested, Charged With Fraud July 13, 2023 By Niket Nishant, Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a...
No Way to Police All Cryptocurrency Fraud, CFTC Commissioner Says May 25, 2023 By Luc Cohen A top U.S. regulator said on Tuesday there is no way to police all cryptocurrency fraud because there is so...
FTX’s Crash Exposes Insurance Black Hole That Risks Impeding Crypto Sector Recovery March 7, 2023 By Sidhartha Shukla A long road lies ahead to repair confidence in crypto after unprecedented bankruptcies and hacks, including the major challenge of...
Insurers Denying Coverage to FTX-Linked Crypto Firms as Contagion Risk Mounts December 19, 2022 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Insurers are denying or limiting coverage to clients with exposure to bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, leaving digital currency traders and...
FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas at Behest of U.S. Prosecutors December 13, 2022 By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before...
How Crypto Giant Binance Became a Hub for Hackers, Fraudsters and Drug Traffickers June 7, 2022 By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson BRATISLAVA – In September 2020, a North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus broke into a small Slovakian crypto exchange...
Cops Struggle to Keep Up With ‘Staggering’ Levels of Crypto Seizures April 13, 2022 By Ellen Milligan and David Voreacos One spring day in a village just west of London, residents saw a man being muscled into a car in...
Brother, Sister Charged in $124 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud March 10, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel U.S. authorities on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a cryptocurrency executive and civil charges against him and his sister, accusing...