DOJ Rules Out Reopening Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell
The decision removes the prospect of a revived DOJ inquiry into the former Fed chair, without signaling any change to monetary policy.
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The decision removes the prospect of a revived DOJ inquiry into the former Fed chair, without signaling any change to monetary policy.
Marset's extradition closes a year-long fugitive hunt and brings a high-profile illicit-finance case to US federal court, where prosecutors will argue crypto was central to his laundering operation.
The inquiry revives scrutiny of Binance’s compliance controls after its 2023 guilty plea and $4.3B settlement, raising fresh regulatory risk for the largest crypto exchange.
The inquiry puts Binance’s sanctions-screening controls at the center of exchange risk and could sharpen compliance expectations across crypto markets.
The filing pins the funds inside a $1.5B pipeline routed through unhosted wallets, an Iranian exchange, and IRGC-linked accounts, with two Chinese firms named as the primary facilitators.
The forfeiture filing targets a sanctions-busting flow that allegedly routed Iranian crude proceeds through Binance, piling fresh exposure onto an exchange already working through a 2023 plea deal.
The case highlights how stablecoin issuers can support cross-border enforcement when crypto flows are tied to a global scam network.
The case reaches beyond wallet balances: seized domains and servers let investigators disrupt fundraising while linking rotating addresses to thousands of people seeking to donate.
A grand jury subpoena reframes a filing correction as a stress test for the entire life-insurer private-credit model, where prices, ratings and counterparties all run through affiliates.
The 280-year statutory ceiling and a victim count that nearly doubled from the SEC's 2021 civil case show how AI-branded Ponzi schemes are now drawing the full weight of federal criminal courts.
The Autotrader pitch was the con, and with sentencing set for December 8 at 20 years max per count, the verdict becomes a wire-fraud benchmark for retail crypto-fund allocators.
BitClub's $722M scheme is the headline figure, but a pre-trial dismissal leaves victims still waiting on a court-approved recovery formula.
The provision bars the president, Congress, and federal officials from issuing crypto while in office, with bipartisan negotiators aiming to lock in updated language within days.
The latest forfeiture filings sit inside a Strike Force pipeline that has already recovered more than $800M, signalling the DOJ's cross-border fraud net is widening, not winding down.
The DOJ-led enforcement structure, not the issuance ban, is the fight: Democrats wanted state AGs in the chain, and the compromise puts federal prosecutors alone in charge of Clarity Act violations.
The DOJ's newest darknet-fentanyl case hits a small ring, but it keeps crypto rails squarely inside the trafficking conversation Washington is already using to pressure exchanges and mixers.
The BitClub Network took in $722M from investors between 2014 and 2019, so the DOJ move to dismiss without trial is the final twist in a seven-year saga that never produced a verdict.
The $1B tied to Iran moved despite a forfeiture order, exposing an operational gap the Treasury will have to explain before any reserve placement.
The case spans a half-billion-dollar-plus fraud and a Trump-era pivot; the optics alone will shape how crypto enforcement reads through 2026.
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…