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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has secured a settlement with Nishad Singh, the former engineering chief of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, compelling him to return $3.7 million in illegal profits. This resolution marks another step in the sprawling legal fallout from the exchange's implosion, ...
Federal prosecutors in Connecticut have seized over $600,000 in cryptocurrency, directly linking the funds to a fraud scheme that specifically targeted owners of Ledger hardware wallets. This action marks a significant recovery in a case that exploited the trust users place in one of the most prominent names in crypto ...
Twelve years after the launch of the massive OneCoin cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, defrauded US investors are being offered a potential, yet belated, path to recovery. The US Department of Justice has opened a claims process for victims, marking a significant but complex step toward financial restitution. This move come...
A Texas man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $20 million cryptocurrency fraud that promised investors a share in a fictional fortune. The scheme, centered on the Meta-1 Coin, was marketed from 2018 to 2023 as a revolutionary investment backed by an audacious $44 billion in gold reser...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against crypto executive Donald Basile, alleging he orchestrated a $16 million fraud centered on deceptive claims about the safety of the Bitcoin Latinum token. The core of the SEC's complaint targets Basile's promotion of the token as 'insured,' a claim t...