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President Trump has fired Pam Bondi and replaced her with Todd Blanche as interim U.S. Attorney General — handing control of the Justice Department to the official who dismantled the DOJ’s crypto enforcement unit in April 2025 and holds up…
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice have filed lawsuits against Illinois, Connecticut, and Arizona over the federal government’s authority to regulate prediction markets. According to a complaint filed against Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Attorney…
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The United States Department of Justice has brought charges against 10 individuals for allegedly manipulating digital asset prices through so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes. In a Tuesday press release, federal prosecutors alleged that the defendants conspired to artificially inflate trading volumes and…
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Three Democratic senators have said they will oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into crypto exchange Binance over possible violations of U.S. sanctions tied to Iran-linked transactions. In a joint statement released Thursday, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Ruben…
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The United States Department of Justice has ordered peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful to pay a fine of $4 million for criminal conduct involving failure to implement proper anti-money laundering checks. A statement released by the DOJ, Paxful has pleaded guilty…
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The United States Department of Justice has finalized the forfeiture of over $400 million in assets that were seized from Larry Dean Harmon, who operated the darknet crypto mixing service known as Helix. Following a final court order issued by Judge…
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U.S. prosecutors are now investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s conduct in what critics view as an escalating confrontation over the central bank’s independence. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has confirmed that U.S. prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation tied to…
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The United States Justice Department has seized a web domain linked to a scam compound in Burma that ran cryptocurrency investment scams. U.S. authorities have shut down the domain tickmilleas.com, which posed as a trading platform but was actually part…
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Prosecutors in the United States have charged Cambodia’s Prince Group with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, after seizing over $14 billion worth of Bitcoin as part of one of the biggest financial takedowns in history. Cambodia’s Prince Group is…
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Binance is reportedly negotiating an early termination of its court-appointed compliance monitor. The move, signaling a potential thaw in regulatory frost, could free the exchange from a key condition of its historic $4.3 billion settlement. On September 16, Bloomberg reported…
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DOJ prosecutors trace a path of stolen Bitcoin from hijacked phones through a complex web of wallets, culminating in a series of circular transactions at an online casino designed to mask the illicit funds’ origins. According to a September 9…
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The masterminds behind the HashFlare crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 400,000 victims have avoided more jail time after a Seattle court sentenced them to time served. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, who U.S. prosecutors accused of running one of…
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Roman Storm’s trial ended with a partial victory for prosecutors, but not the sweeping condemnation they sought. Convicted of running an unlicensed money transmitter, he avoided a more damning outcome as jurors couldn’t agree on whether Tornado Cash was a…
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The years-long federal case against the founders of privacy-focused Samourai Wallet is taking a major turn. According to court filings dated July 29, Samourai Wallet co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill will formally plead guilty in their money laundering…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a forfeiture action to recover nearly $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin tied to a new ransomware group dubbed Chaos. Chaos is a recently identified ransomware-as-a-service operation. First spotted in early 2025 by researchers…
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