Block to Pay $45M After States Allege Cash App Fraud Misleading
The fine is half the story. The 24/7 live support mandate and a ban on future safety claims reshape how Cash App can market itself to the unbanked users it was built for.
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The fine is half the story. The 24/7 live support mandate and a ban on future safety claims reshape how Cash App can market itself to the unbanked users it was built for.
A single operator, 60 retail victims, and a commodity pool the agency says never existed as advertised. The case is small in dollar terms but textbook in registration and reporting failures.
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.
Delgado admitted in Tampa federal court that Goliath Ventures took investor cash meant for crypto trading and routed it to luxury homes, holiday parties, and supercars.
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.
Eighteen retail investors lost nearly $1M to a fake crypto platform that routed funds to Hong Kong bank accounts; the bigger read is that the SEC is treating WhatsApp-group relationship scams as a…
The sentence closes a multi-year US case over GTV, Himalaya Exchange and the farm alliance, but leaves open how much investors will ever recover from the alleged $1B raise.
The fraud piggy-backed on the ZKsync brand to deceive global crypto users, and on-chain tracing tied 120+ transactions to U.S.-sanctioned entities.
The registration and trading ban closes out the agency's case but adds nothing to the 12-year prison sentence — the structural read is that a top-tier US regulator now has a permanent fraud record on…
A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled on Friday that Sam Bankman-Fried failed to overturn his criminal…
The SEC has charged a Texas man with fraud after investigators found he diverted $6.2 million in investor funds to…
The $189.7M loss from channeling user funds into Anchor's 19.5% yield was the original wound; the criminal charges now turn misleading statements about that exposure into a 20-years-per-count prison…
Two of FTX's key professional service providers — its former law firm and auditor — have agreed to pay a combined $66…
The $1.3T implied valuation against $23M in assets is the headline, but the structural blow is the SPV itself: Anthropic and OpenAI just told the market that every tokenised pre-IPO exposure on the…
DSJ Exchange / BG Wealth Sharing drew over $150M before going offline; $41.5M has already been frozen after cooperation between Tether, Binance, OKX and U.S. law enforcement.
The amended complaint accuses Etana and CEO Dion Brandon Russell of running a 'Ponzi-like enterprise' funded by continuous new deposits — a structural failure that landed the custodian in Colorado…
The HKMA's April 28 alert exposes a structural gap between bank-name legitimacy and on-chain verification — and one that grows wider as more licensed issuers enter the market.
The proposal in Canada's Spring Economic Update 2026 would end a 13-year retail on-ramp the country invented in 2013 — and signals how Ottawa plans to treat any low-friction crypto product that…