SEC Says Its Binance Case Should Advance Despite DOJ Settlement December 12, 2023 By Chris Strohm The Securities and Exchange Commission says Binance Holdings Ltd.’s recent $4.3 billion settlement with the Justice Department and other US...
Hackers Stole About $1.7 Billion This Year From Crypto Projects December 12, 2023 By Olga Kharif The amount of funds crypto projects lost to hackers has declined by about half to around $1.7 billion so far...
Binance Was Used to Funnel Money to Hamas, Other Militant Groups November 22, 2023 By Allyson Versprille In February 2019, Binance Holdings Ltd.’s then-Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim acknowledged that the cryptocurrency exchange was being used to...
US Is Seeking More Than $4 Billion From Binance to End Case November 21, 2023 By Chris Strohm, Allyson Versprille and Olga Kharif The US Justice Department is seeking more than $4 billion from Binance Holdings Ltd. as part of a proposed resolution...
Bankman-Fried Acknowledges ‘Mistakes’ But Testifies He Did Not Defraud Anyone October 27, 2023 By Jody Godoy and Luc Cohen Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying in his own defense at his fraud trial on Friday, acknowledged that a “lot of people got...
New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Firms Gemini, DCG, Genesis for Alleged Fraud October 19, 2023 bankruptcybakruptNew York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued cryptocurrency firms Genesis Global, its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG)...
Bankman-Fried Was ‘Math Nerd’ Who Overlooked Risk Management October 5, 2023 By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer laid out his defense case at his fraud trial on Oct. 4, portraying the 31-former billionaire as...
FTX Sues Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents to Claw Back Funds September 22, 2023 The managers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX sued the parents of co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer Sam Bankman-Fried to...
Tornado Cash Founders Charged by US in Money Laundering Scheme August 25, 2023 By Bob Van Voris and Allyson Versprille Two founders of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that has been under scrutiny by various US agencies for 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...