DOJ Drops Charges in $722M BitClub Network Ponzi Case
The BitClub takedown once read as one of the DOJ's loudest crypto-fraud wins; if the ringleader's counts are dropped after eight years, the message that sends to pending crypto-fraud dockets is…
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The BitClub takedown once read as one of the DOJ's loudest crypto-fraud wins; if the ringleader's counts are dropped after eight years, the message that sends to pending crypto-fraud dockets is…
The complaint targets a federal inmate accused of siphoning forfeited digital assets through exchanges and mixing services, layering a theft case on top of an existing sentence.
If the memo holds, US prosecutors lose their most informative eye inside the world's largest crypto exchange, and an already-cordial regulatory relationship gets colder at exactly the wrong moment…
The alert suggests the monitor overseeing Binance's $4.3B plea deal is over, which would let the exchange stop sharing documents without breaching the agreement.
Christopher Delgado admitted to wire fraud and money laundering after prosecutors say his firm ran a classic three-year payout scheme that burned at least $250M of investor money.
A 30-year sentence lands on top of a $900M forfeiture, a New Jersey mansion, and a fleet of luxury cars; the case becomes the latest US data point that crypto-native fraud draws full racketeering…
The sentence closes a years-long DOJ case in which a Hollywood director tried to spin a streaming service’s sci-fi budget into a personal trading desk.
The DOJ and White House are being told a single provision in the draft market-structure bill could strip investigators of the tools they currently rely on to trace and prosecute illicit crypto…
The directive signals a sharper federal posture on energy antitrust, with the Justice Department now tasked with identifying whether refiners coordinated to push prices higher.
The meeting, first reported by Bloomberg, sits at the intersection of two parallel legal tracks: the Justice Department's reversal on Adani and the Trump family's deepening India business ties.
The action takes a server offline, not a company, but it pulls a known node from a FinCEN-flagged laundering network that processed scam and hack proceeds on chain.
The Garcia brothers held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for over eight hours to steal more than $8M in crypto — now they face up to 20 years each and full restitution.
Congress is moving to rebuild a federal crypto crime task force, months after the Department of Justice dismantled its…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two individuals in connection with a $389 million cryptocurrency laundering…
A Washington state man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in facilitating a $100 million…
Coinbase, SpaceX, and Meta have partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice in a coordinated anti-scam operation that…
The case marks the first major US insider-trading prosecution tied to a prediction market — and puts every employee trading on Polymarket on notice that non-corporate data still qualifies.
The prison term is the headline, but the DOJ's own filing shows Giri kept raising from new investors after his guilty plea — the pattern regulators warn about as FBI-cited crypto fraud losses crossed…
The $2M figure is small; the playbook — dormant darknet wallets rotated into physical gold shipped across borders — is what compliance and law-enforcement trackers will read.